Home values are booming in north and south Alabama, where tech industries and coastal real estate have attracted droves of new residents in recent years. “The growth happening in that part of the ...

Section 2 says that states cannot draw maps that "result in a denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race or color." The 5-4 decision effectively strikes down Alabama's GOP-drawn ...

Alabama’s congressional map has been in limbo since June, when the Supreme Court ruled that the State Legislature had drawn it in a way that violated a landmark civil rights law and undercut the ...

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.

The Supreme Court ordered Alabama lawmakers to draw a map that included two majority-Black districts or “something quite close,” but the legislature approved a new map with one district with ...

News Here’s the Alabama redistricting map Supreme Court Voting Rights Act plaintiffs want adopted Updated: Jun. 26, 2023, 10:29 a.m. | Published: Jun. 24, 2023, 1:09 p.m.

Alabama's 2021 congressional map, left, and the new map passed by the Legislature on July 21, 2023. (Mike Cason/[email protected]) ...

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 ...

The Alabama Legislature must approve a new congressional map by Friday, the deadline set by a federal court to submit new federal maps. The state has had a single majority-minority congressional ...

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’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.