Alabama's 2021 congressional map, left, and the new map passed by the Legislature on July 21, 2023. On the new map, District 7 remains the only majority Black district.

Sen. Steve Livingston, R-Scottsboro, sponsor of the Senate plan, said he believes the map meets that requirement because it increases the Black voting age population in District 2 from 30% to 38%.

The adoption of the new map comes after a 19-month legal battle over the representation of Black voters in Alabama’s congressional map. The state legislature assembled for a special session this ...

Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature gave final passage Friday to a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to ...

The Republican-led House and Senate in Alabama approved dueling congressional maps Wednesday that would increase the percentage of Black voters in the state’s 2nd District — but not by enough ...

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.

Federal judges for a U.S. District Court in Alabama ruled against state lawmakers and rejected their congressional district that only included one Black-majority district.

The Legislature continues its Jim Crow tradition and actually goes a step further by defying a direct Supreme Court order. On Tuesday, the nation saw a through line in America’s federal judicial ...

Similar challenges to Alabama’s state legislature district maps came after the 2010 census brought Alabama’s redistricting to the Supreme Court in 2015. However, ...

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.