What the Alabama congressional map fight could mean for 2024 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
What the Alabama congressional map fight could mean for 2024 – CBS News Watch CBS News The Supreme Court has rejected Alabama’s Republican-drawn legislative district map — meaning it will need to be redrawn for the third time this year. Richard Briffault, law professor at Columbia University, joins CBS News to unpack the ruling. Be […]
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Mayor introduces redistricting plan for Baltimore City Council
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is introducing his redistricting plan proposal Monday to the City Council. The mayor’s office released a statement late Monday afternoon, saying the mayor’s is based on requirements for redistricting established in the city charter following the 2020 census, and it will address population changes, trends and new imbalances within existing council […]
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Judges choose plaintiffs’ recommended cartographer in upcoming Alabama redistricting hearing | #elections | #alabama
Three federal judges chose David Ely on Wednesday as the new court-appointed map drawer in an upcoming redistricting lawsuit hearing in federal court. If a congressional redistricting plan passed by Republicans in a special session recently is rejected in an upcoming hearing beginning on August 14, Ely and a court-appointed special master would draw a […]
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Plaintiffs object to new Alabama congressional map in redistricting lawsuit | #elections | #alabama
Plaintiffs in a redistricting lawsuit against the State of Alabama formally objected in federal district court on Friday to the new congressional district map passed by state legislators recently. A federal court hearing with a three-judge panel to decide whether the map passed by Republicans will stand for the 2024 election is set for August […]
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Alabama GOP defies Supreme Court order for black districts with new congressional map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Alabama seems to have defied an order from the Supreme Court by passing a redistricting map that only included one majority black district instead of two on Friday. The Supreme Court agreed with a lower-level federal court in its order for the state to include two districts that had largely black populations among its voting-aged […]
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Alabama black Republicans nervous about redistricting based on ‘stereotype’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
MONTGOMERY — Black Republicans urged lawmakers at a redistricting committee meeting on Thursday not to redraw congressional districts based on racial stereotypes about voting. The Supreme Court of the United States upheld with a 5-4 vote a lower court’s decision to require the Alabama Legislature to redraw the congressional districts to include a second largely […]
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Tuscaloosa Lawmakers Doubt Montgomery Will Agree on Redistricting | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
The Supreme Court of the United States is probably going to end up drawing Alabama’s Congressional map and no one is sure how it’ll look or when the matter will be settled. That was the core of the message during a meeting of the Public Affairs Council of the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama […]
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Louisiana seeks trial on redistricting, says ‘plenty of time’ before 2024 vote | #elections | #alabama
BATON ROUGE – The plaintiffs in a federal case that could force congressional re-districting in Louisiana want the matter to play out next at the appellate court level, but Louisiana officials hope it will return to district court — and insist that there’s time for a trial there in advance of the 2024 elections. A […]
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Why is a nonprofit funded by politicians paying for redistricting in Alabama? | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A little-known Montgomery nonprofit funded by state legislators, political action committees (PACs), and at least one congressman is paying for redistricting in Alabama. Citizens for Fair Representation, founded in November 2020 by three political consultants, raised approximately $109,000 from state legislators and PACS from Dec. 2020 to Jan. 2022. “It was a 501(c)4 used to […]
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Legislature working to avoid a Carl-Moore GOP primary with Alabama’s new congressional district map? | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
After last month’s 5-4 Milligan v. Allen decision, it seemed inevitable that two Republican congressional incumbents would be forced to face each other in a head-to-head match-up. Early speculation included the possibility of a contest between U.S. Reps. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) and Mike Rogers (R-Saks). However, a story in Saturday’s Washington Post dismisses any threat […]
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