The Birmingham-Hoover Metro area is by far the most populous region in the state, and four of the state’s seven districts touch the area. Under Alabama’s current map, which the Supreme Court ...

On the current map, District 7, represented by Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, is about 55% Black. The other six districts range from about 60% to 81% white. Alabama has had the same 6 ...

Federal judges had ruled that the state’s 2022 district map diluted Black voters’ power. Photo by Kim Chandler/Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The lines on Alabama’s congressional map ...

A federal court has picked Alabama’s new congressional map, which will likely result ... Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, state Rep. Napoleon Bracy, and state ...

Black United States Courthouse in Birmingham. That same panel ruled in 2021 that Alabama’s congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of Black voters.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A district court in Alabama today ordered the state to adopt a congressional map that includes two districts where Black voters will have the opportunity to elect the candidates of ...

A federal court ruling in Alabama could mean another new congressional map for the state, part of a long legal fight over district lines.

The new map will give ... the "Black Belt" from Birmingham to Montgomery. A federal judge said Tuesday that the court will soon adopt new congressional districts for Alabama, choosing among ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal court today rejected Alabama’s new congressional map due to its failure to remedy the violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, ordering a special master redraw ...

Under the Republican map, only one of the state's U.S ... Court upheld the panel's decision in June, the Birmingham court ordered Alabama legislators to create a second district with either ...