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FILE – Reggie Weaver, at podium, speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C, on Feb. 15, 2022, about a recent partisan gerrymandering ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, June 8, 2023, that Alabama’s U.S. House districts violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power […]
FILE – Reggie Weaver, at podium, speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C, on Feb. 15, 2022, about a recent partisan gerrymandering ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, June 8, 2023, that Alabama’s U.S. House districts violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power […]
The 2022 elections marked the first using new voting districts drawn from updated census data. Those districts typically last for a decade, but they could be short-lived in some states. Court challenges could force lawmakers or special commissions to draw yet another set of maps before the 2024 elections for representatives in Congress and state […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising 5-4 ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting rights law. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with the court’s […]
The Supreme Court, in a surprise decision, ruled that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 ruling. He was joined by Justice Brett M. […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press forward with a similar law that had been on […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in June in a case that could result in Alabama redrawing its seven Congressional districts and could affect other states in how the Voting Rights Act is applied. Individual voters and organizations filed the lawsuit in 2021, challenging the district map approved by the Alabama Legislature after […]
Case centres on allegation that Republican lawmakers in South Carolina drew district maps to dilute share of Black votes. The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by South Carolina officials to revive a Republican-crafted voting map that a lower court said had unconstitutionally “exiled” 30,000 Black voters from a closely contested […]
WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by South Carolina officials to revive a Republican-crafted voting map that a lower court said had unconstitutionally “exiled” 30,000 Black voters from a closely contested congressional district. The justices took up an appeal by South Carolina officials of a […]