For a second time, the Republican-drawn congressional map in Alabama was rejected by a panel of federal judges on Tuesday for failing to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
The three-person panel in Alabama, including two Trump-appointed judges, threw out an earlier redistricting plan approved by Republican lawmakers in the state after finding that it diluted the power of Alabama's Black voters. That earlier ruling was held up by the conservative Supreme Court. After the 2020 census, a group of Black voters challenged the map that maintained six congressional districts with a white Republican incumbent. More than one in four residents of Alabama are Black.
