A three-judge federal court on Tuesday rejected a map passed by the Legislature in July and ordered a court-appointed special master and cartographer to draw a new map.
Sep. 05, 2023, 1:00 p.m.Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a ruling rejecting Alabama’s new congressional map.
The same court had ruled last year that Alabama’s map passed in 2021, with one majority Black congressional district out of seven in a state where the population is 27% Black, most likely violated the Voting Rights Act, as alleged by voters and organizations that sued. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld that ruling in June.
At a hearing before the three-judge court panel in August, Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour told the court that the new map with the Voting Rights Act and saidto create a second opportunity district for Black voters to comply with the law.
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