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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A federal court ruling in Alabama could mean another new congressional map for the state, part of a long legal fight over district lines.

A panel of three federal judges on Thursday chose a new Alabama congressional map that maintains a Black-majority district in the state and establishes another near-Black-majority district that ...

Specifically, the court argued the map diluted the state’s Black population’s votes by spreading out Black residents over multiple districts. Alabama’s state Senate voted 24-6 on party lines ...