A federal court ruled that the congressional district map drawn by the Alabama legislature was unconstitutional, ordering that it use the court-drawn map from the 2024 election. The Thursday ...

starting in 2021 when the congressional plan drawn after the 2020 Census consisted of six out of the seven districts being majority white, despite 27% of the state’s population being Black.

Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district.