The three-judge panel blocked use of the state's newly drawn congressional map in next year's elections,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...
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...
The three-judge panel ruled in 2022 that the current legislative map likely violates the federal Voting Rights Act and said any map should include two districts where "Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority" or something close. The Supreme Court upheld that decision. Now that the pl...
In 2022, the Court had put the lower court’s order that Alabama redraw the map for the election on pause, and did so through the shadow docket, without explaining its reasoning. While the shadow docket was once reserved for matters that require unusually quick Court action, the conservative-...
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” The state is claiming that if a new map to craft two Black majority districts is to be drawn, it must be drawn without taking race into account as a priority — otherwise, the state claims, it would be an illegal racial gerrymander. The argument, if the conservative majority accepts ...
Georgia hosted the firstDemocratic member vs. member primarywith McBath and Carolyn Bourdeaux running in the new 7th Congressional District. Both Democrats flipped suburban districts in their respective first elections (McBath in 2018 and Bourdeaux in 2020). While most of the new congressional distric...
Luther King Jr. wrote his letter from Birmingham jail; where four girls were killed in the Birmingham church bombing; and where Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in the doorway at the University of Alabama to block black students from entering in defiance of a federal court desegregation ...
"Even with this court's landmark decision to uphold Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Alabama Republicans have defied court orders at every turn by refusing to enact a map that gives Black Alabamians the opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice in two districts," he said in a ...