Sept 5 (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 ...

Hey there. KYLE GASSIOTT, BYLINE: Hey, Adrian. FLORIDO: So Kyle, can you remind us - why was Alabama's original congressional map rejected by the Supreme Court? GASSIOTT: Well, the court said that ...

The court’s decision to pick a map that creates a district in a southeastern swath of Alabama with a 48.7% Black voting-age population also concludes this phase of a legal saga that saw the US ...

The new district map is a remedy to Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power, and may lead to the election of two Black representatives for the first time in the state’s history.

Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally ... refused to redraw the map to include a second congressional district that would allow Black voters to elect the candidate of their choice. ...

What exactly that map should look like is in dispute as lawmakers rush to draw new lines. Alabama lawmakers convene in special session Monday tasked by the court with adopting a new map by the end ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Alabama officials on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily halt a lower court's ruling that rejected a Republican-crafted electoral map for diminishing ...

A federal court ruling in Alabama could mean another new congressional map for the state, part of a long legal fight over district lines.

WASHINGTON − A federal court in Alabama on Tuesday once again struck down that state's congressional map for not including a second majority African American district, setting up another Supreme ...

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