A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map in Alabama that significantly boosts the Black population of a second district and could represent a pickup opportunity for Democrats in ...

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 ...

Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Friday that she is calling the state legislature back into session Monday, May 4, in order to redraw the state’s congressional map. The move by Ivey — ...

A panel of three federal judges on Thursday chose a new Alabama congressional map that maintains a Black-majority district in the state and establishes another near-Black-majority district that could ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Alabama to make Republican-friendly changes to 2026 elections and potentially flip a seat in Congress. In an unsigned order June 2, justices said lower courts had ...

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. By Emily ...

A three-judge court in Alabama’s Northern District has determined, for the second time, that the legislature’s 2023 congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act and cannot be used in future ...

Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion of the electorate. The ...