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The lines on ... a white candidate preferred by Black voters could win under any of the maps, but a Black candidate would struggle. On Thursday, the judges decided to enforce the third map drawn ...
A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved a map that increases the percentage of Black voters in one of the state’s six majority-white ...
A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map ... Black district. State legislators instead simply increased the Black percentage to roughly 40% in one of Alabama’s White-majority ...
the Alabama Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment recommended a new congressional district map with one district that is 53% Black and 43% white and one that is 44% Black and 52% ...
The legal fight continues over Alabama's congressional map ... is majority white would also be a district where there's a realistic chance for a win by a candidate of choice of Black voters ...
A panel of three federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest version of its congressional map Tuesday ... “exiled” 30,000 Black voters to create a district safer for a White Republican candidate.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Alabama’s new congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act, handing a win to black voters ... and the white majority “votes ...
A federal court blocked a newly drawn Alabama congressional map on Tuesday because it didn’t create a second majority-Black district ... maps should be redrawn. White voters currently make ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the drawing of a new Alabama congressional map with greater ... in Alabama. Black voters overwhelmingly favor Democratic candidates, and white voters prefer ...
Following the 2020 census, Alabama made six of its seven districts majority white, despite 27 percent of the state’s population being Black. Though the Supreme Court allowed the map to be used ...
Tuesday’s decision clears the way for a new statewide congressional map to be ... that next year, Alabama could elect a second Black Democrat to the House, along with five white Republicans.
Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district.