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 is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

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.

Alabama state Senator Rodger Smitherman discusses a redistricting proposal during debate at the Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler) (CN) — The state of ...

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 ...

What the Alabama congressional map fight could mean for 2024 03:53. Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where ...

The plaintiffs who are challenging Alabama’s congressional map under the Voting Rights Act want a federal three-judge panel to block the legislature-approved map from being used in 2024. And ...

Alabama’s state Senate voted 24-6 on party lines in July to recommend a new map, with the state’s House voting 75-28 in favor of the map, though it only included one Black majority district ...

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.

This was similar to maps approved after the 2000 and 2010 censuses. The plaintiffs claim there are enough black voters in Alabama to justify a map with two black-majority districts—and, further ...