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In a per curiam opinion on January 24, 2022, [8] the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama blocked as illegal the map passed by the Alabama legislature after a lawsuit was filed by the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, ordering the legislature to draw two districts with either Black voting-age ...
After the 2020 Census and the 2020 redistricting cycle, the Alabama Legislature largely instituted the same congressional and legislative maps which have been in place since 1993. Soon after, multiple groups of plaintiffs sued, asserting the districts violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United ...
Following redistricting as a result of the 2020 United States census, the Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature adopted a new congressional map in the autumn of 2021. The map drew one of Alabama's seven congressional districts with an African-American majority population; a single African-American majority congressional district had been ...
The three-judge panel that struck down Alabama's existing map in 2022 said the “appropriate remedy" is a map with a second majority-Black district or "an additional district in which Black ...
The Supreme Court decision sets up Alabama’s first significant revamp of its congressional districts since 1992, when Alabama was ordered by the courts to create its first majority-Black district.
The 2022 elections were the first to be based on the congressional districts which were defined based on the 2020 United States census. [3] Each state is responsible for the redistricting of districts within their state, while several states have one "at-large" division.
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Some voters in North Carolina and Alabama will head to the polls Tuesday to select US House candidates in contests dramatically reshaped by congressional redistricting in recent months.