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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Friday proposed a new congressional map that would include a single majority-Black district in the state, a plan that could defy a Supreme Court order to give minority voters a greater voice in elections. Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated Senate passed the plan 24-6, with the House speeding toward […]
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How Supreme Court decisions will help determine if House flips blue in 2024 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – Just five months after winning the House, Republicans are already looking to defend their majority in 2024. A Supreme Court decision requiring Alabama to add an additional majority-minority district will likely lead to an additional Democratic pickup there, and in Louisiana, which had similar Congressional map issues. Amy Walter with The […]
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Deadline today in the process of redrawing Alabama’s Congressional maps | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Today is the last day for the general public to make comments as Alabama lawmakers redraw the State’s Congressional maps. Governor Kay Ivey set July seventeenth to meet over the issue. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with a three-judge panel that the current maps likely violated the Voting Rights Act. The issue is diluting the […]
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Admission to Alabama universities ‘not based upon race’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
On Thursday, Alabama Higher Education commissioner Jim Purcell told 1819 News that Alabama’s public colleges and universities did not make admission decisions based on race. On Thursday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case that affirmative action in college admissions violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Affirmative action policies and programs […]
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Ohio may follow Alabama with challenged Congressional voting maps | #elections | #alabama
Republican lawmakers had already planned to redraw those districts b The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state’s congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a ruling striking down the districts and ordered further consideration of the case. The Supreme Court’s brief order was the fourth […]
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Louisiana may follow Alabama in court ordered boost to black voting power | #elections | #alabama
The Supreme Court has lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to redraw congressional districts to boost Black voting power. Monday’s order follows the court’s rejection earlier in June of a congressional redistricting map in Alabama and unfreezes the Louisiana case, which had been on hold pending the Alabama decision. […]
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US Supreme Court backs Alabama Black voters, bolsters civil rights law | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Conservatives Roberts, Kavanaugh join liberals in ruling Court opts not to diminish Voting Right Act protections WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed a major victory to Black voters who challenged a Republican-drawn electoral map in Alabama, finding the state violated a landmark law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting and […]
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Republican bid to defend Trump immigration rule | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed an effort by a group of Republican state officials to revive former President Donald Trump’s hardline policy that barred certain immigrants deemed likely to require government benefits from gaining lawful permanent residency. The justices turned away an appeal by 14 Republican state attorneys […]
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Behind U.S. Supreme Court race cases, a contested push for ‘color blindness’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Oct 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, wasted no time making clear her views on race. On her second day of hearing arguments on the court, Jackson said the U.S. Constitution is not “race blind” and that governments may consider race to ensure that people are treated […]
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Alabama activists press voting rights in U.S. Supreme Court showdown | #elections | #alabama
Supreme Court to hear arguments on Oct. 4 in Alabama case Eventual ruling could cripple landmark Voting Rights Act Sept 26 (Reuters) – When Evan Milligan, a voting rights activist and organizer, scans his hometown of Montgomery, the capital of the state of Alabama, he sees a tale of two cities. On one side of […]
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