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 ...

The 2023 Plan plainly fails to do so.” Recent Supreme Court rulings over districting maps ... advance voting rights legislation. JaTaune Bosby Gilchrist, director of the ACLU of Alabama, which ...

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

Alabama enacted a new map in July, once again with only one majority-Black district. The lower courts agreed with the challengers that the 2023 plan also likely violated the Voting Rights Act and ...

Finding it “substantially likely” that the 2023 map violates the Voting Rights Act because it failed to create an additional majority-Black district or “something close to it,” the lower court ...

BREAKING: A federal court has ordered Alabama to use this congressional map for the 2024 elections ... possible to the Alabama Legislature's 2023 Plan." The June decision by the Supreme Court ...

the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama directed the state to adopt a map that will include a second Black opportunity district. The newly drawn district has a voting-age ...

The court-ordered map, used in the 2024 elections, resulted in Alabama electing two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in history.

A court ordered Alabama’s Legislature to redraw its congressional map to give Black voters more power. The Legislature’s response? Not unless we have to. “We are the ‘make me state ...

The judges said that the map drawn by the Alabama Legislature in 2023 violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, just like the one previously drawn by the state. "The long and short of it is that the ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Alabama ... map for diminishing the clout of Black voters, escalating a legal dispute with potentially broad implications for the 2024 congressional elections.

When a federal court in Alabama last week ruled that the state’s 2023 congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act because it diluted the voices of Black voters, groups that were challenging the ...