A federal court blocked a newly drawn Alabama congressional map on Tuesday because it didn’t create a second majority-Black district as the Supreme Court had ordered earlier this year.

G.O.P. legislatures in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana are contesting federal orders to redraw congressional maps that disfavor Black voters. The stakes are enormous. By Michael Wines Reporting ...

Alabama’s government lost a set of appeals, and was forced to change its maps. That is a likely outcome in Georgia, and in Louisiana, too, if that state follows the same path.

A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map in Alabama that significantly boosts the Black population of a second district and could represent a pickup opportunity for Democrats ...

Supreme Court decision on Alabama map shaped Georgia ruling. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision that ordered Alabama to redraw its U.S. House maps.

For the first time since the Supreme Court weighed in, on Tuesday, Alabama will vote using its new Congressional map that gives Black voters more power.

Georgia legislators appear to be going “down the Alabama path,” a reference to that state’s refusal to comply with a court’s order to add a Black district, said Charles Bullock, a ...

Alabama is just one of a handful of Southern states that are litigating congressional districts. Maps in Florida, Louisiana and Georgia have all been challenged for diluting the power of Black voters.

Republicans in Georgia violated a landmark civil rights law in drawing voting maps that diluted the power of Black voters, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled on Thursday, ordering that new maps must ...

In Georgia, a federal judge has already stated that parts of the state’s maps likely violate federal law. Still, he’s running a trial to flesh out the facts.