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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Alabama GOP Refuses to Back Down Over Discriminatory Map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 04: Lead counsel for the plaintiffs Deuel Ross (2nd L) speaks to members of the press as President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Janai Nelson (R), plaintiff Evan Milligan (2nd R) and U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) (3rd R) listen after the oral argument of the Merrill […]
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Alabama Voters Prep for Another Map Fight After Republicans Flout SCOTUS Ruling | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Voters in Alabama are preparing for another legal battle after the state’s GOP-dominated Legislature and Republican Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved new congressional districts that critics say defy a surprising recent decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest map “is really a slap in the face, not only to Black Alabamians but to […]
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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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‘Big Win for Democracy’ as SCOTUS OKs Redrawing of Rigged Louisiana Congressional Map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Democracy defenders in Louisiana and beyond on Monday applauded the U.S. Supreme Court for allowing the redrawing of a racially gerrymandered congressional map—a move that will add a second majority-Black district in the Southern state where 1 in 3 residents are African-American. The Supreme Court rejectedArdoin v. Robinson, Republican Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin’s […]
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The unfinished battle: Shelby County v. Holder and the fight for voting rights today | #elections | #alabama
On this day 10 years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). That decision has been devastating for voters of color and our representative democracy. And while the court’s recent decision in Allen v. Milliganregarding racial gerrymandering that upheld Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is a favorable step, […]
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AP: Alabama SCOTUS decision may “breathe new life” into other voting rights cases | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
More changes could be coming to voting districts in some states. The 2022 elections marked the first using new districts for Congress and state capitols that were drawn from updated census data. But they could be short-lived in some places. That’s because court challenges could force some states to redraw districts again before the 2024 […]
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