Evan Milligan helped lead the fight for Black voters in Alabama’s Black Belt. He says 39-year-old Figures' victory could ...
Gerrymandering has already ... thanks in large part to the Supreme Court's ruling against impermissibly drawn congressional districts in Alabama earlier this year. Its decision in Alexander ...
While gerrymandering for maximum effect ... given "the extent to which Alabama’s calculation to defy the Supreme Court was made not simply by state legislators in Alabama" according to the ...
Previous districts drawn by Alabama Republicans diluted Black residents’ voting power, a federal judge ruled last year.
Polls have consistently shown Democrat Shomari Figures leading Republican Caroleene Dobson, with the most recent survey ...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year in the latest chapter in a protracted dispute over race and redistricting in Louisiana. In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference ...
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into a ...
While congressional redistricting typically only happens every 10 years, coinciding with the U.S. Census, several states have ...
The Supreme Court heard arguments ... is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and illegally sorted voters primarily based on race. The court also sent a case on the IQ scores of a man on Alabama’s ...
The case involves two majority-Black districts and will impact how states craft minority voting districts to comply with the ...