By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black districts or “something quite close to it.
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Alabama GOP governor approves congressional map with just one majority-Black district despite court order
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Alabama Republicans push through controversial congressional map
Federal judges that ordered Alabama to draw new congressional lines said the state should have a second district where Black voters are the majority “or something quite close to it” and have an opportunity to elect a representative of their choice.
Lawmakers are rushing to draw new congressional lines after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the existing map needed a second district where Black voters are the majority.
Lawmakers must adopt a new map after the high court in June affirmed a three-judge panel's ruling that Alabama’s existing congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act.
Republican Alabama legislators advanced a new congressional map Monday with just one majority-Black district, seemingly spitting in the eye of the Supreme Court which had just sent it back to the drawing board.
Alabama begins a special session to consider a new congressional voting map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state's current map likely diluted the power of Black voters in Alabama.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — On day two of Alabama’s special session to redraw the state’s congressional lines, Republican lawmakers advanced two maps, each with just one majority Bl…
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 create two majority-Black districts or “something quite close to it.”
Black lawmakers in Alabama said the new congressional map Republicans proposed Wednesday was an insult to the Supreme Court as it doesn’t comply to its order.
The Supreme Court ordered Alabama lawmakers to draw a map that included two majority-Black districts or “something quite close,” but the legislature approved a new map with one district with 51% Black voting majority and another made up of 40% Black voters.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., have been calling state legislators about the map, which could affect control of Congress.
By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black districts or “something quite close to it.
Alabama seems to have defied an order from the Supreme Court by passing a redistricting map that only included one majority black district instead of two on Friday.
