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A three-judge panel permanently blocked Alabama from using a state-drawn map that they said flouted their directive to draw a plan that was fair to Black voters.
A federal court ruled Thursday that Alabama engaged in intentional discrimination when it refused to draw a congressional plan with a second Black majority district after courts, including the Supreme ...
A federal court ruled that the congressional district map drawn by the Alabama legislature was unconstitutional, ordering ...
The court ruled Alabama's map violates the Voting Rights Act, ensuring continued use of a court-ordered map enabling two ...
The three-judge panel said it would consider a motion from plaintiffs to subject future congressional districting in Alabama to preclearance.
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 federal court ruling in Alabama could mean another new congressional map for the state, as a panel of federal judges found ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has won a victory at the Supreme Court against Alabama's discriminatory redistricting practices ...
Court Rules Alabama Violated Voting Rights Act in Drawing Congressional ... injunction that ordered it,” they wrote. The Thursday ruling came after a February trial over the state map.
A federal court says Alabama can't use a congressional map it found unconstitutional. The ruling comes in a voting rights ...
The state has not been subject to preclearance since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2013 ruling in another key voting rights case out of Alabama — Shelby County v. Holder. "It is my hope that this ...