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Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black districts or “something quite close to it.”
Alabama’s Republican-led state legislature has officially gone rogue. After much anticipation, Alabama released a proposal for its congressional map that appears to directly violate a recent Supreme Court voting rights decision.
In a state where more than one in four residents is Black, the lower court panel had ruled in 2022 The post Alabama GOP ignores SCOTUS, refuses 2nd Black majority district appeared first on TheGrio.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed a major victory to Black voters who challenged a Republican-drawn electoral map in Alabama, finding the state violated a landmark law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting and paving the way for a second congressional district with a Black majority or close to it. The 5-4 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts affirmed a lower court's decision that the map diluted the voting power of Black Alabamians, running afoul of a
Republican lawmakers in Missouri are pushing for a state takeover of the St. Louis police department. Republican officials in Mississippi and elsewhere also have acted this year to take control over some functions in Democratic-led cities and Black-majority cities such as Jackson, Mississippi where the NAACP have launched a lawsuit