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A federal court ruling in Alabama could mean another new congressional map for the state, part of a long legal fight over district lines.
At issue in the Alabama case: whether the map drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature improperly diluted the political power of Black Alabamians, who make up 27% of the state’s population but ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused Alabama’s attempt to hold 2024 elections under a new congressional map judged to be an unlawful attempt to diminish the power of the state’s Black voters.
A panel of three federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest version of its congressional map Tuesday, saying the state’s Republican-led legislature did not follow a court order backed by the U.S ...
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 ...
objected to all three of the maps the judges had under consideration. Alabama Republicans, including Secretary of State Wes Allen, also objected to the three maps. The map is the result of ...
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 panel of federal judges struck down Alabama’s latest congressional voting map on Tuesday, arguing it dilutes Black votes in the state and fails to meet protections under the Voting Rights Act ...
Soon, the State of Alabama will likely follow suit ... entities are required to recognize the name change in newly created maps, documents, educational materials, websites, officials ...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall had written in a statement on last month that if the case against the state's map succeeded, Americans "will be grouped together by race alone, with ...