Court Orders Alabama To Use Redrawn US House Map

ABC News reports:

After a protracted legal battle, Alabama voters will vote in their next congressional elections, in 2024, using a map that includes a second district designed to empower the state’s Black voters, a federal court ruled on Thursday.

The state Legislature had been previously ordered to redraw its House districts to include “two districts in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it.”

The courts later ruled that lawmakers had failed to comply and ordered outside experts to instead draft new lines. The districts that will be used in the 2024 elections are likely to see Democrats win an additional seat in Alabama, given that Black voters there favor Democrats.

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