Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal court's decision blocking Alabama from using its newly drawn congressional map drew swift and sharply divided reactions ...

In this sweltering political August, redistricting has become the hot fight of the moment. And in Alabama, after years of courtroom showdowns, a long-fought redistricting battle appears to have ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday night allowed Alabama to hold upcoming elections using a congressional map that a lower court found discriminates on the basis of race and dilutes the political power of ...

A three-judge federal court has picked the map Alabama will use for its congressional elections next year, one that will add a second district where Black residents make up close to half of the voting ...

Alabama is likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost Democrats a majority-Black district. By Emily Cochrane and Abbie VanSickle Emily ...

Alabama lawmakers are scrambling to change the state's congressional maps. The governor called a special session after the Supreme Court tossed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. Here in the ...

The Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s plea to keep a discriminatory congressional map in place and reinforced the order to have a special master redraw it after Republicans failed twice to comply with ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A federal court has come to a ruling regarding Alabama’s congressional map. On Thursday, a three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ...

Alabama’s current map includes a newly crafted district with a 40% Black population – less than what would guarantee Blacks an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice. In their July action on ...

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Case 2:21-cv-01530-AMM Document 537 Filed 05/26/26 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION BOBBY SINGLETON, et al., Plaintiffs, ) V. WES ALLEN, in his official ...

Panel of three judges says congressional map was drawn to intentionally discriminate against Black voters Alabama cannot use a new Republican-friendly map in this year’s midterm elections because it ...