By Maegan Vazquez and Amy B Wang | Washington Post
A panel of three federal judges on Thursday chose a new Alabama congressional map that maintains a Black-majority district in the state and establishes another near-Black-majority district that could flip a House seat for Democrats in 2024.
“A full hearing on the redistricting issue will take place in the future and I trust [Alabama] Attorney General [Steve] Marshall to represent Alabama through that process,” he said.
Thursday’s decision is the latest in a long legal battle that pitted Alabama’s GOP-led legislature against Democrats and civil rights groups that argued that Republicans were illegally diluting the power of Black voters in the state. About 27 percent of the state’s voting population is Black.
In the map chosen Thursday, the state’s 2nd Congressional District has a Black voting-age population of 48.7 percent, and its 7th District maintains its Black majority with a Black voting-age population of 51.9 percent.
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