Alabama, Supreme Court and Congressional
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The Supreme Court ruled race can't be a factor in voting districts, sparking celebration from Republicans and outrage from Democrats.
Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling significantly limiting majority-minority districts should not have an immediate effect on Alabama's legislative and congressional districts. But that could change in the future.
The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than half a century in a case concerning a Black majority congressional district in Louisiana.
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use re-drawn congressional ...
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district on Wednesday, an about-face from a ruling the justices made in a similar Alabama case less than three years ago.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black and Latino electoral districts that tend to favor Democrats and affect the balance of power in Congress.