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, ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled Alabama’s current congressional maps likely violate the Voting Rights Act, and the state’s districts will have to be redrawn. Two of the Court’s conservative ...
A three-judge federal court has picked the map Alabama will use for its congressional elections next year, one that will add a second district where Black residents make up close to half of the voting ...
A fight over congressional representation in Alabama is headed for another federal court showdown after the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved new district lines that critics say ...
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.
A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 14 for a hearing to consider new congressional districts. Federal judges had ruled that the state’s 2022 district map ...
UPDATE (July 18, 2023, 3:50 p.m.): On Tuesday, a Senate committee in Alabama passed a different congressional map from the one discussed below, but it has the same flaws: Namely, it does not create a ...
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 unanimous ...
A new congressional map drawn by the courts for Alabama will likely turn one Congressional seat blue. We get reaction from both parties. A panel of three federal judges has chosen a new congressional ...
Lawmakers in Alabama convened Monday to draw a new congressional map, following a Supreme Court ruling that determined the state's current districts likely violated the Voting Rights Act. Alabama must ...
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, after ...
Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion of the electorate. The ...