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Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023), [ note 1 ] is a United States Supreme Court case related to redistricting under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The appellees and respondents argued that Alabama's congressional districts discriminated against African-American voters. The Court ruled 5–4 that Alabama's districts likely violated the ...
Following another hearing on the case, the federal panel issued an opinion on October 5, 2023, ordering Alabama to implement the congressional map known as Remedial Plan 3, as drawn by the special master. Secretary of State of Alabama Wes Allen said his office would implement the new map for the 2024 elections. In Remedial Plan 3, Alabama's 2nd ...
Mike Rogers's voice. Rogers, as chair of the House Armed Services Committee, speaks in support of the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act Recorded July 12, 2023. Michael Dennis Rogers (born July 16, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district since 2003. He is a ...
Dec. 19—Editor's Note: The Cullman Times is counting down the top stories of 2023. Here's No. 9. Thanks to statewide reform in sentencing for most Alabama inmates this year, Cullman County found ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF, the Legal Defense Fund, or LDF) is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City. LDF is wholly independent and separate from the NAACP. [ 1 ] Although LDF can trace its origins to the legal department of the NAACP created by Charles Hamilton Houston in ...
The 2022 Alabama gubernatorial electiontook place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Alabama. IncumbentGovernor Kay Iveytook office on April 10, 2017, upon the resignation of Robert J. Bentley(R) and won a full term in 2018. In 2022, she won her bid for a second full term in a landslide.
The EPA has proposed denying Alabama’s coal ash storage plan, arguing the toxic byproduct exists leeching in waterways, wildlife, and farms. Local residents have taken both sides on the proposal.
Birmingham Northern Beltline. Interstate 422 (I-422), Corridor X-1, or the Birmingham Northern Beltline is a proposed 52.5-mile-long (84.5 km) northern bypass route around Birmingham, Alabama, through northern and western Jefferson County that is projected to be completed by 2047. [ 2 ] Along with the existing I-459, the Northern Beltline would ...