Alabama's new, court-picked map adds a second congressional district where Black voters' preferred candidate is projected to win a majority of the time.

The map, dubbed the “Community of Interest” map, has one majority Black voting age population at 51.55% in the 7th congressional district, taking in Birmingham and most of the western Black ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.

A federal court has picked Alabama’s new congressional map, which will likely result in an additional Black — and Democratic — member in the delegation.

Court ruling on Black political power in Alabama could affect maps in other states. June 9, 2023 5:00 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. From. By ... This new map showed two majority-Black districts.

Alabama's congressional district map that was used for the 2022 elections, left, was found by the U.S. Supreme Court to likely violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting the influence of Black voters.

A federal court struck down Alabama’s congressional map on Tuesday, after GOP state lawmakers refused the court’s mandate to draw a second majority-Black district.

The scathing 198-page ruling slaps down Alabama for effectively ignoring its previous order to comply with the Voting Rights Act, which was upheld by the conservative dominated U.S. Supreme Court.

The new congressional map Alabama Republicans proposed on Monday contains only one majority-Black district. Getty / Alabama Legislature UPDATE (July 18, 2023, 3:50 p.m.): ...

A panel of three federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest version of its congressional map Tuesday, saying the state’s Republican-led legislature did not follow a court order backed by the U.S ...

A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., July 18, 2023.