Instead, lawmakers passed another map that only marginally increased Black voters' share in a second district. Once again, the same three-judge panel reviewed Alabama's map.

Now Alabama is asking the justices to step in again as it argues that its 2023 map passes legal muster even if it doesn’t include a second majority-Black district. In a filing with the Supreme ...

Instead, lawmakers passed another map that only marginally increased Black voters’ share in a second district. Once again, the same three-judge panel reviewed Alabama’s map.

A federal court ruled on Thursday that Alabama's Republican-led legislature intentionally discriminated against Black voters when it approved a new electoral map in 2023 that only had one majority ...

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… ...

Alabama has to come up with a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that its current districts likely diluted the voting power of Black residents.

Alabama’s New Congressional Map Fits the Justices’ Ruling It’s the voting-rights plaintiffs who are defiant. The court never ordered the creation of a second black district.

Alabama's Republican-backed congressional map illegally dilutes Black residents' voting power and must be redrawn, a panel of three federal judges ruled on Tuesday, a decision that the state said ...

The new map is the end — for now — of a lengthy legal battle that pitted Alabama’s Republican-led legislature against Democrats and civil rights groups.

A federal court ordered Alabama on Thursday to use a new congressional map that could lead the state to elect two Black representatives for the first time in its history, by creating a second ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.