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Alabama has to come up with a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that its current districts likely diluted the voting power of Black residents. Today marks the end of a ...
The new congressional district map approved Friday by the Alabama Legislature makes changes to all seven districts and moves about a dozen counties to different districts. Democratic lawmakers ...
A previous version of this article misstated some of the changes proposed to Alabama’s congressional districts. The new map lowers – rather than increases – the percentage of Black voters in ...
The redrawn map was approved by the Republican-controlled Alabama legislature in July. It apportioned the state’s 7th Congressional District to include a population that is 50.65 percent Black ...
The court’s decision to pick a map that creates a district in a southeastern swath of Alabama with a 48.7% Black voting-age population also concludes this phase of a legal saga that saw the US ...
A federal court blocked a newly drawn Alabama congressional map on Tuesday because it didn’t create a second majority-Black district as the Supreme Court had ordered earlier this year. In a ...
Kay Ivey issued a statement saying, "The Legislature knows our ... The ultimate map used by Alabama — where majority-Black districts are likely to elect Democrats and majority-white districts ...
A federal court ruling in Alabama could mean another new congressional map for the state, part of a long legal fight over district lines.
Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated ... the state Legislature refused to redraw the map to include a second congressional district that would allow Black voters ...
A federal court ruled that the congressional district map drawn by the Alabama legislature was unconstitutional, ordering that it use the court-drawn map from the 2024 election. The Thursday ...
(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 ...