Federal court blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans
The panel said the 2023 plan intentionally diluted Black voting power and kept the court-drawn map in place for 2026.
- On Tuesday, federal judges temporarily blocked Alabama's plan to use a new congressional map that could give Republicans an advantage in a key House race, issuing a preliminary injunction requiring the state to continue using court-ordered districts from the 2024 elections.
- A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Black-majority district in Louisiana and weakened the Voting Rights Act prompted Republicans across the South, including Alabama, to reshape voting districts with large minority populations that had elected Democrats.
- Alabama must maintain the Special Master map previously used in the 2024 elections and recent 2026 primaries, as lawyers warned that switching maps mid-election year would create chaos and administrative problems.
- Alabama could appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court as the decision marks another major turn in redistricting battles across the South, reflecting President Donald Trump's broader push to help Republicans maintain their slim House majority in November elections.
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Alabama urges Supreme Court to allow for use of congressional map struck by lower court as racially discriminatory
Just over two weeks after the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court had blocked as racially discriminatory, Alabama returned to the court. In a filing on Wednesday morning, the state asked the justices to pause a new ruling by a panel of federal judges that once again barred the state from using the map on the ground that the map “intentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the Cons…
Federal Judges Uninterested In Supreme Court’s Excuses For Alabama’s Racist Map
On Tuesday, a three-judge federal court issued a new injunction that again blocks Alabama from using an unconstitutionally racist district map in the 2026 congressional elections. The unanimous court, which includes two Trump appointees, emphasized that it “carefully reviewed the extensive evidentiary record” with “fresh eyes,” in order to accord with the Supreme Court’s latest anti-voter decision. And even so, the lower court said, “we cannot s…
Federal Court Just Shut Down Trump's Gerrymander Plot in Alabama
A federal court just slammed the brakes on Alabama Republicans’ latest attempt to redraw congressional maps in a way judges say intentionally weakened Black voting power, delivering a major setback to Donald Trump’s broader midterm strategy. The ruling blocked Alabama’s 2023 congressional map after the court concluded it was “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.” The judges found Republicans knew exactly what they were doing when th…
Alabama District Court Answers SCOTUS Prayers On Redistricting: No, Says District Court
We will never not use this picture of Sam Alito being sad.We were musing to ourselves over the long weekend about the dismissal of the Broadview Six case and the fact that at least some federal courts have been holding the line against both the Trump regime’s imaginative reinterpretation of centuries of American law and the Supreme Court’s new judicial doctrine of inveniendi cacas that it has leaned on to give Trump almost anything he wants. And…
Jim Crow Just Suffered a Temporary Setback—in Alabama
Elie Mystal A federal district court struck down the state’s new congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The post Jim Crow Just Suffered a Temporary Setback—in Alabama appeared first on The Nation.
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The Straits TimesTrump’s redistricting push suffers setbacks in Alabama, South Carolina
President Donald Trump’s push for Republican-led states to draw electoral maps more favorable to his party ahead of November’s midterm elections suffered twin setbacks on Tuesday, when efforts in South Carolina and Alabama to reshape U.S. House of Representatives districts were stymied. The post Trump’s redistricting push suffers setbacks in Alabama, South Carolina appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
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