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Supreme Court signals few map changes before midterms

WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court order that allowed Alabama to use its new congressional map for the 2022 election has ominous signs for federal challenges to redistricting plans in other states for the upcoming midterms and beyond.

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Chief Justice John Roberts’ grip slips as Supreme Court conservatives curb voting rights

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts was once in the vanguard as the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back the Voting Rights Act. But as his more conservative colleagues showed this week in restoring a Republican-drawn Alabama congressional map, Roberts is no longer in control.

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'She died protecting her children': California bus shooting victim was from Seattle

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Karin Dalton was a devoted mother and she was protecting her children when she was shot and killed after a gunman opened fire last week inside a Greyhound bus in Northern California.

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Supreme Court redistricting ruling could stop challenges to Georgia maps

ATLANTA — Lawsuits challenging Georgia’s redistricting could come to an abrupt halt after the U.S. Supreme Court put on hold a lower court’s ruling that had found new congressional maps in Alabama diluted representation of Black voters.

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High court's Alabama ruling sparks alarm over voting rights

The Supreme Court’s decision to halt efforts to create a second mostly Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election has sparked fresh warnings that the court is eroding the Voting Rights Act and reviving the need for Congress to intervene

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: How Alabama congressional map got to high court

A divided Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use re-drawn congressional districts for the 2022 elections that a lower court found had improperly diluted the votes of Black residents

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SCOTUS joins the GOP racist insurrection

The Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act while conservatives erase the history that necessitated its passage

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The Supreme Court's Alabama Redistricting Ruling Looks Like a Holding Pattern, Not a Power Grab

Contrary to some of the more breathless reactions, it doesn't suggest a conspiracy to help Republicans win elections by disenfranchising black voters.

Reason

‘A disservice to Black Alabamians’: Outrage as Supreme Court restores Alabama maps which discriminate against Black people

Justices tee up legal battle over Voting Rights Act and protections against racial gerrymandering

The Independent UK

Supreme Court signals few map changes before midterms - Roll Call

The court's decision on Alabama's congressional map may mean other states’ Voting Rights Act challenges will take longer.

Roll Call

Throwing Shade At The Shadow Docket In The Alabama Redistricting Cases

Merrill v. Milligan is the most important shadow docket entry since John Does 1-3 v. Mills

Reason

In win for GOP, Supreme Court blocks new Black-majority district in Alabama

WASHINGTON — In its first decision on this decade’s congressional redistricting, the Supreme Court on Monday sided with Alabama’s Republicans and blocked the creation of a new Black-majority district in the state.

Los Angeles Times

Supreme court lets Alabama use maps decried as biased against Black voters

Justices put on hold a lower court ruling that state must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court restores Alabama’s GOP-drawn congressional map in voting rights battle

Justices tee up legal battle over Voting Rights Act and protections against racial gerrymandering

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Supreme Court sides with GOP in Alabama election map case

The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections, boosting Republican chances to hold six of the state’s seven seats in the House of Representatives

Roll Call

Supreme Court allows Alabama to use GOP congressional map - Roll Call

The 5-4 ruling means Alabama may be holding its primary using a map that a lower court found likely to have violated the Voting Rights Act.

The Guardian - US

Scholz and Biden warn Russia would pay ‘high price’ for Ukraine invasion – as it happened

Joe Biden issues stark advice to Americans in Ukraine: ‘Leave’

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Black worker at Confederate site raises race complaint

Visitors to Alabama's state Capitol often stop next door at “the First White House of the Confederacy," where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived at the start of the Civil War

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Contributions aplenty spur Kentucky past Alabama, 66-55

Going into Saturday’s game, Alabama was aware and wary of the diversity of talent possessed by Kentucky. Of course, six UK players had 20 or more points in a game.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Reese’s Senior Bowl, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch college football

The 2022 Reese’s Senior Bowl will be held on Saturday afternoon from Hancock Whitney Stadium on the Southern Alabama campus.

The Independent UK

Alabama man accused of hiring brother as hitman to kill wife amid bitter divorce battle

Schoolteacher Sara Starr was shot and killed outside her home in Coffee County in November 2017

USA Today Sports Media Group

Kentucky vs Alabama Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Kentucky vs Alabama prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might - or might not - win on Saturday.

The Independent UK

Justices weigh Alabama's bid to stop redistricting order

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing Alabama’s request to freeze a court order requiring the state to draw new congressional lines and create a second district with a significant number of Black voters

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Amazon workers try new tactics to unionize in Alabama

Amazon workers and organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, are making door-to-door house calls, sporting pro-union T-shirts and challenging anti-union messaging by Amazon-hired consultants as they try to convince their peers for the second time to unionize their warehouse

The Independent UK

Alabama building to share names of KKK leader, Black student

A University of Alabama building named for a former governor who led the Ku Klux Klan a century ago will also bear the name of the first Black person to attend the school

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