A federal court struck down Alabama's congressional map for not following an order to comply with the Voting Rights Act. Court-appointed experts are now set to draw a new map for the 2024 elections.
Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour speaks alongside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after oral arguments in an Alabama congressional redistricting case outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2022.Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour speaks alongside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after oral arguments in an Alabama congressional redistricting case outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2022.
"We are not aware of any other case in which a state legislature — faced with a federal court order declaring that its electoral plan unlawfully dilutes minority votes and requiring a plan that provides an additional opportunity district — responded with a plan that the state concedes does not provide that district," said U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco and U.S. District Judge Terry Moorer.
All sides in this case will be able to challenge the proposals produced by the court's"special master" and cartographer, the
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