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 ...

Alabama's congressional district map that was used for the 2022 elections, left, was found by the U.S. Supreme Court to likely violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting the influence of Black voters.

It was a legitimate surprise when the conservative-dominated US Supreme Court ordered Alabama’s conservative-dominated state government last month to redraw its congressional map and include ...

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.

A panel of three federal judges struck down Alabama's latest congressional districting plan. Neither this map nor a prior version had more than one district with a majority Black population.

A panel of federal judges will soon decide whether Alabama Republicans complied with a court mandate to create a map that gives Black voters more power. By Emily Cochrane Reporting from Birmingham ...

The new map is the end — for now — of a lengthy legal battle that pitted Alabama’s Republican-led legislature against Democrats and civil rights groups.

Alabama's congressional map will be redrawn again. A panel of federal judges has, for the second time, struck down a map from Republican state lawmakers. At issue is the political power of Black ...

Alabama Republicans are hanging their hats, at least ostensibly, on a five-word clause and another key word in the district court’s 225-page decision that threw out the previous map: The ...

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 the clout of Black voters ...

The adoption of the new map comes after a 19-month legal battle over the representation of Black voters in Alabama’s congressional map. The state legislature assembled for a special session this ...