Georgia voting groups fear court ruling on Arkansas maps hurts chances to challenge election laws | #elections | #alabama
A federal appeals court ruling last week is the latest sign in a shifting national landscape limiting the ability of minority voters to challenge voting laws on claims of racial discrimination. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling of a federal district judge who dismissed a lawsuit filed by organizations representing Black […]
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The Decision That Could End Voting Rights | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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A federal court’s opinion yesterday could render the Voting Rights Act meaningless, if the Supreme Court upholds it. Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty November 21, 2023, 9:32 AM ET The right to vote free of racial discrimination was won by blood and sacrifice, those of both the soldiers who fought to preserve the Union and […]
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Federal appeals court dismisses Arkansas redistricting lawsuit
A federal appeals panel on Monday affirmed a lower court’s ruling and dismissed a case challenging Arkansas’ state redistricting map, asserting that only the United States attorney general can enforce the Voting Rights Act. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that private individuals can’t sue under Section 2 of […]
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Redistricting fights in these 10 states could determine which party controls the US House | Politics-national | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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(CNN) — Around the country, politicians are waging high-stakes battles over new congressional lines that could influence which party controls the US House of Representatives after the 2024 election. In North Carolina, the Republicans who control the state legislature have crafted a map that could help them flip at least three seats. Democrats, meanwhile, could […]
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NC Democrat: ‘Sue the bastards’ over maps. Can that be a winning strategy? | WFAE 90.7 | #elections | #alabama
This story first appeared in WFAE reporter Steve Harrison’s weekly newsletter. Sign up here to get the news first in your inbox. Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel of Cary didn’t hold back about the new Republican-passed congressional map, which gives the GOP the clear advantage in 10 of 14 seats. Democrats are strong favorites in three districts, and […]
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Alabama Republicans Think the Supreme Court Is Partisan | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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To hear the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices tell it, they are not partisan hacks. And it is unfair for anyone to suggest otherwise. “This Court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett insisted in a 2021 speech at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, named after Senator Mitch McConnell. […]
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Court tosses Alabama Republicans’ racist re-districting map aimed at suppressing Black votes – People’s World | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 14, 2023. to watch a redistricting hearing. Federal judges said Tuesday, Sept. 5, that they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, […]
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Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024 | #elections | #alabama
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FILE – A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled in the summer of 2023 that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the […]
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Alabama redistricting: Democrats balk as Republicans defend newly redrawn map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A federal court in Alabama will soon decide whether a recently passed map by state Republican lawmakers will stand for the 2024 election, a legal fight that could ascend to the Supreme Court not long after the justices ruled against a previous map that lacked a second black-majority district. Democrats and activist groups have vehemently […]
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Alabama Is Defying the Supreme Court on Voting Rights | #elections | #alabama
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Supreme Court rulings are meant to be the law of the land, but Alabama is taking its recent opinion on the Voting Rights Act as a mere recommendation. In an echo of mid-century southern defiance of school desegregation, the Yellowhammer State’s Republican-controlled legislature defied the conservative-dominated Court’s directive to redraw its congressional map with an […]
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