A federal court has selected a new congressional map for Alabama that will significantly increase Black voting power in the state and likely flip one of the state’s seats to a Democratic representative.
The decision on 5 October comes from the same three-judge panel that ruled that Republican-drawn boundaries discriminated against Black voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act, a challenge that made its way to the US Supreme Court, which has repeatedly rejected the state’s GOP-led attempts to keep its discriminatory map.
