(Reuters) -Alabama's Republican-backed congressional map illegally dilutes Black residents' voting power and must be redrawn, a panel of three federal judges ruled on Tuesday, a decision that the ...

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 same flaws: Namely, it does not create a ...

A fight over congressional representation in Alabama is headed for another federal court showdown after the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved new district lines that critics say ...

A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 14 for a hearing to consider new congressional districts. Federal judges had ruled that the state’s 2022 district map ...

Former President Barack Obama on Friday praised the new Alabama congressional district map as a “historic win for voting rights and democracy.” “Alabama has a new, fairer congressional map that gives ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The three-judge ...

A panel of federal judges struck down Alabama’s latest congressional voting map on Tuesday, arguing it dilutes Black votes in the state and fails to meet protections under the Voting Rights Act, after ...

Federal judges have selected a new congressional map for Alabama on Thursday – one that includes an additional majority-Black district that will likely give Democrats an additional seat in the House.

Lawmakers in Alabama convened Monday to draw a new congressional map, following a Supreme Court ruling that determined the state's current districts likely violated the Voting Rights Act. Alabama must ...

A panel of three federal judges has struck down Alabama's latest map of congressional election districts for not following a court order to comply with the landmark Voting Rights Act. Alabama's ...