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 a pickup opportunity for Democrats ...

If granted, Alabama would become the only state since 2013 to have its congressional redistricting process approved by the ...

A central point of discussion was whether a clause in the 1965 Voting Rights Act could be used to address ongoing concerns ...

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.

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… ...

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 ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office said that if Plaintiffs object to the newly-approved map, they are scheduled to file their objections with the federal district court in ...

On Thursday, the judges decided to enforce the third map drawn by the special master. The map doesn't include a second majority-Black district. District 2 has a Black voting-age population of 48.7%.

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.

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.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A panel of federal judges on Monday began a review of Alabama’s redrawn congressional map, which opponents argued defies the court’s mandate to create a second district ...