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In a win for Black voters in redistricting case, Alabama to get new congressional lines
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is headed to the first significant revamp of its congressional map in three decades after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the state’s bid to keep using a plan with a single majority-Black district.
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Supreme Court will let Alabama's congressional map be redrawn to better represent Black voters
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In a win for Black voters in redistricting case, Alabama to get new congressional lines
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the drawing of a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters to proceed. The new districts also could help Democrats trying to flip control of the House of Representatives.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Alabama’s stay request, the first sign that it will not be blithely compliant with state officials’ attempts to undo the high Court’s June ruling knocking down its maps.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the State of Alabama’s emergency request that the court reinstate Alabama’s partisan congressional map that the GOP supermajority passed in a July special session. This means that the map that Alabama will use in the 2024 election will be selected by the three jud…
CNN By Ariane de Vogue and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency bid from Alabama, setting the stage for a new congressional map likely to include a second Black majority district to account for the state’s 27% Black population.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the drawing of a new Alabama congressional map with greater representation for Black voters to proceed, rejecting the state’s plea to retain Republican-drawn lines that were struck down by a lower court.
The justices left in place an order directing a court-appointed special master to propose new lines for the state with a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused Alabama's request to run 2024 elections under a new congressional map that a lower court ruled was an illegal attempt to diminish the power of the state's black voters.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition from Alabama to undo a lower court order that blocked a Republican-drawn congressional map, which lacked a second majority-Black district.
The Supreme Court rejected an Alabama plea to retain a Republican-drawn congressional map, allowing work to proceed on new districts with greater representation for Black voters. Redistricting lawsuits are pending in several other Southern states.
It was the second time in four months the high court has sided with a three-judge panel that found Alabama's legislature likely violated the Voting Rights Act.
Alabama’s emergency application asked the high court to intervene for a second time in the state’s battle over giving Black voters more representation in its congressional maps.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Alabama’s request to allow it to use a congressional map in the 2024 elections that a lower court had concluded likely violates the Voting Rights Act. The brief unsigned order, from which there were no public dissents, came less than four months after a divided
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