Alabama celebrates arrival on political map. Mary Troyan. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — For Alabama voters who have longed for a meaningful voice in a competitive presidential ...

But a three-judge panel ruled in 2022 that the state likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black political power. The judges said Alabama needed to make a second majority-Black ...

Since then, Alabama has mounted what amounts to a scorched-earth defense of its maps, despite telling a three-judge panel that the state needed a new House map by October, before an early November ...

Alabama's congressional map will be redrawn again. A panel of federal judges has, for the second time, struck down a map from Republican state lawmakers. At issue is the political power of Black ...

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) said in a statement that his office “will facilitate the 2024 election cycle in accordance with the map the federal court has forced upon Alabama and ...

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map in Alabama that significantly boosts the Black population of a second district and could represent ...

The Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s maps are illegally diluting Black voters’ political power. State lawmakers have until July 21 to adopt a new congressional map.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers have to redraw congressional district lines after a significant U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could affect political maps across the South for years to come.

The new map will give the state a second opportunity district for Black voters, with all considered proposals giving it a Black voting-age population of at least 48.5%.

Alabama’s congressional map has been in limbo since June, when the Supreme Court ruled that the State Legislature had drawn it in a way that violated a landmark civil rights law and undercut the ...

WASHINGTON — In a historic win for voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in Allen v.Milligan in favor of Black voters who challenged Alabama’s 2021-enacted congressional map for violating ...