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 ...

The Alabama Senate on Wednesday passed a new congressional map as mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court, which found that Alabama’s current map most likely violates the Voting Rights Act.

The Republican-led House and Senate in Alabama approved dueling congressional maps Wednesday that would increase the percentage of Black voters in the state’s 2nd District — but not by enough ...

But the new map approved by Alabama’s Republican-dominated legislature – and signed into law by GOP Gov. Kay Ivey – in July created only one majority-Black district and boosted the share of ...

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.

Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature gave final passage Friday to a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to ...

Alabama’s state Senate voted 24-6 on party lines in July to recommend a new map, with the state’s House voting 75-28 in favor of the map, though it only included one Black majority district ...

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 s… ...

Following the Supreme Court ruling, the Alabama legislature approved a second map that did not include a second Black opportunity district, the 2023 plan.

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 ...