The new district map is a remedy to Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power, and may lead to the election of two Black representatives for the first time in the state’s history.

But when Alabama produced its new map in July, it came under immediate legal challenge because the state, once again, declined to create a second majority-Black district. State legislators instead ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The lines on Alabama's congressional map have shifted — along with some of the state's political power. After a high-profile legal fight that lasted roughly two years, a ...

Alabama Republicans, including Secretary of State Wes Allen ... in the case preferred Remedial Map 1 – which contained two congressional districts with a majority Black voting age populations ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled Alabama’s current congressional maps likely violate the Voting Rights Act, and the state’s districts will have to be redrawn. Two of the Court’s ...

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court ruling that found the state's map of congressional election districts likely violates the Voting Rights Act by weakening ...

Interactive: Alabama redistricting 2022: Congressional maps by district “We are deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said fed ...

The three-judge panel, in striking down Alabama's map in 2022, said the state should have two districts where Black voters have an opportunity to elect their preferred candidates. Because of ...

Alabama is the first state this year to get new congressional ... all the way up to the Supreme Court. The new map results in one majority-Black district and one in which Black residents make ...

Alabama will have to draft new congressional lines after federal judges struck down a proposal Tuesday from state lawmakers as it did not include a second Black-majority district, as the court ...

(AP) — Alabama’s congressional map is at stake in a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state will keep the new court-created district that led to the election of a second Black ...