People line up on August 14, 2023, outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, where a three-judge panel was reviewing a new congressional map for the state.

Alabama's new, court-picked map adds a second congressional district where Black voters' preferred candidate is projected to win a majority of the time.

Alabama finally has a new congressional map after a lengthy legal fight. Stephan Bisaha, Gulf States Newsroom | October 9, 2023. A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham ...

The new map, referred to as Remedial Map 3, was chosen Thursday by a three-judge federal panel to serve as Alabama’s new congressional map for the 2024 elections.

A panel of federal judges will soon decide whether Alabama Republicans complied with a court mandate to create a map that gives Black voters more power. By Emily Cochrane Reporting from Birmingham ...

For the first time since the Supreme Court weighed in, on Tuesday, Alabama will vote using its new Congressional map that gives Black voters more power.

Alabama's congressional district map that was used for the 2022 elections, left, was found by the U.S. Supreme Court to likely violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting the influence of Black voters.

“Alabama’s latest congressional map is a continuation of the state’s sordid history of defying court orders intended to protect the rights of Black voters,” Holder said.

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.

Then Alabama tried again — with a map that, like the 2021 version, still had only one district with a Black majority. According to the judges, Alabama was brazen in its attempt to move forward ...