Congressional Black Caucus

Federal judges that ordered Alabama to draw new congressional lines said the state should have a second district where Black voters are the majority "or something quite close to it" and have an opportunity to elect a representative of their choice.What exactly that map should look like is in dispute as lawmakers rush to draw new lines.

Today is the last day for the general public to make comments as Alabama lawmakers redraw the State’s Congressional maps. Governor Kay Ivey set July seventeenth to meet over the issue. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with a three-judge panel that the current maps likely violated the Voting Rights Act.

Alabama governor Kay Ivey set a special legislative session to redraw congressional district maps that the U.S. Supreme Court declared unfair to Black voters.

The Supreme Court has lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to redraw congressional districts to boost Black voting power. Monday's order follows the court's rejection earlier in June of a congressional redistricting map in Alabama and unfreezes the Louisiana case, which had been on hold pending the Alabama decision.

Alabama legislators will hold their first meeting next week to determine what the state's new congressional map should look like after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the state's existing plan unlawfully diluted the power of Black voters.

A pair of proposals that would restrict classroom conversations around so-called “divisive concepts” failed to pass this legislative session. However, activists are concerned they may return in 2024.

More changes could be coming to voting districts in some states. The 2022 elections marked the first using new districts for Congress and state capitols that were drawn from updated census data. But they could be short-lived in some places. That's because court challenges could force some states to redraw districts again before the 2024 elections.