finding the redistricting plan likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters. A special master will be tapped to draw new districts for the state, the judges said. Alabama is expected to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court....
Alabama.—The twenty-second State admitted into the Federal Union of America. It lies north of the Gulf of Mexico, and is known as one of the Gulf, or South Cent...
In June, a divided high court unexpectedlyupheld a lower court rulingthat invalidated the voting lines for the state's seven congressional districts that were crafted by Republicans lawmakers after the 2020 Census because it likely violated Section 2 of the landmark voting law. In that lower court...
federal judges in birmingham who found that the map approved by the republican-led state legislature to set the boundaries of alabama's seven u.s. house districts was unlawfully biased against black voters and must be redrawn. that map was devised after the supreme cour...
As Spencer points out, the decision will also affect state legislative districts, which have become all the more critical with a potentially significant, looming Supreme Court case —Moore v. Harper —yet to be decided. “This might become especially important if the Supreme Court agrees with the...
"If there are school districts promoting this teaching or if there is someone who is adversely affected — student or teacher — we want to know about it and would like to speak with them," Watson said. What's taught in Alabama?
data. school information is provided by the government. setting fringe rural charter school no magnet school no district this information relates to schools run by this school's state operating agency. many districts contain only one school. school information is provided by the government. total ...
(1925). In that case the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State of Oregon was prohibited from enforcing a law banning all private education and requiring all children to attend public schools. If all the school districts in Alabama adopted the same policy as that of Dothan City Schools,...
Now that the plan has passed, the fight will shift quickly back to the federal court to debate whether Alabama's congressional districts comply with federal law and offer a fair opportunity to Black voters and candidates in a political landscape dominated by white Republicans. ...