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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 ...
Alabama begins a special session to consider a new congressional voting map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state's current map likely diluted the power of Black voters in Alabama.
It was déjà vu all over again at the Supreme Court on Monday, as Alabama asked the justices to intervene in a dispute over the state’s congressional map. The last time it made such a request, in ...
For the second time in recent months, the Supreme Court ruled against Alabama lawmakers and their proposed congressional district map.
Under orders from the Supreme Court to produce a voting map that no longer illegally dilutes the power of Black voters in Alabama, the state’s lawmakers are now facing a high-stakes scramble to ...
Last Friday, Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a new congressional district map that appears to openly defy an order issued by the Supreme Court just six weeks ago.
Alabama officials on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily halt a lower court's ruling that rejected a Republican-crafted electoral map for diminishing the clout of Black voters ...
A panel of three federal judges struck down Alabama's latest congressional districting plan. Neither this map nor a prior version had more than one district with a majority Black population.
Three federal judges who ruled last year that Alabama’s congressional district map most likely violated the Voting Rights Act will decide whether a new map approved by the Legislature in July ...
Judges pick voting map in Alabama October 6, 2023 at 4:37 a.m. by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports ...
A panel of three federal judges in Alabama will consider on Monday the state legislature’s latest attempt to draw a congressional district map. It should reject this one, too. In June, the U.S ...
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 s… ...