Sep 05, 2023, 10:39am EDT Sep 05, 2023, 12:12pm EDT. Share. Save. Topline. A panel of federal judges struck down Alabama’s latest congressional voting map on Tuesday, ...

The last time it made such a request, in January 2022, Alabama won the battle but lost the war: A divided Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s decision holding that the state’s map likely ...

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 ...

Plaintiffs said Alabama’s actions and the defiance of the court order mirror the state’s actions in the 1960s.

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.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused Alabama’s request to reinstate a congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers that had only one majority-Black district, paving the way for a new map to ...

A three-judge panel of federal judges ruled that Alabama's latest congressional map likely violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 because only one of seven districts has a majority of Black voters ...

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 ...

In other states, non-voting rights challenges could cut both ways. In North Carolina, a state Supreme Court with a Democratic majority ordered a new map for 2022, saying the one crafted by the GOP ...

Alabama asked the Supreme Court on Monday to step in and block a lower court ruling that enjoined its 2023 congressional election map and that ordered a special ... July 18, 2023. Alabama on ...

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 ...

Alabama Republicans were at it again on Monday, when they asked the U.S. Supreme Court to change a voting rights law after the justices rejected identical arguments just three months ago, and ...