Federal judges on May 26 issued an order temporarily blocking Alabama’s plan to implement a new congressional map that could help Republicans in the November elections for the U.S. House of Representatives.
A three-judge panel on a federal district court ordered the state to continue using court-ordered districts from a 2024 map. The state could appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Attorneys for black voters had argued that the new map discriminated against black voters.
The new ruling comes out of a long-running dispute over how congressional districts are drawn in Alabama.
Following the 2020 U.S. Census, the Republican-controlled Legislature drew a map that contained one majority-black district….
Federal Court Blocks Alabama’s New Congressional Map Favoring Republicans
