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 ...

The main changes are in the southern half of the state ... six safe Republican districts and one safe Democratic district, Alabama’s map will now have two districts where Democrats have a ...

The map was drawn by a court-appointed special master and creates a new purple 2nd congressional district running from Mobile County in Tillman’s Corner north through the southern Black Belt to ...

The new map adds a second congressional district where Black voters ... The June decision by the Supreme Court has spread beyond Alabama to other southern states with their own redistricting ...

The redrawn map was approved by the Republican-controlled ... the panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, took particular issue with the ...

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 ...

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.

A federal court Thursday ordered Alabama to implement a new congressional map drawn by a ... a 2nd Congressional District running from Mobile County through the southern Black Belt and to the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers have to redraw congressional district lines after a significant U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could affect political maps across the South for years to come.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Alabama’s request to allow it to use a congressional map in the 2024 ... to draw a second district that gives Black voters the opportunity to elect the candidate ...

G.O.P. legislatures in Alabama ... legislatures drew maps that effectively boxed Black voters out of having a chance of electing a candidate in one additional congressional district.