An earthquake‑level Supreme Court ruling that weakens the 1965 Voting Rights Act is triggering major questions about ...

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.

Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Friday that she is calling the state legislature back into session Monday, May ...

Alabama’s GOP-led legislature has advanced bills to set special primary elections in certain congressional and state senate districts if the U.S. Supreme Court lifts an injunction blocking maps that ...

UPDATE (July 18, 2023, 3:50 p.m.): On Tuesday, a Senate committee in Alabama passed a different congressional map from the one discussed below, but it has the same flaws: Namely, it does not create a ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The lines on Alabama's congressional map have shifted — along with some of the state's political power. After a high-profile legal fight that lasted roughly two years, a panel of ...

A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 14 for a hearing to consider new congressional districts. Federal judges had ruled that the state’s 2022 district map ...