Eric Holder

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who backed litigation that resulted in the redrawing of Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, called next week's election a historic opportunity for the state's voters. Holder appeared with the district's Democratic nominee Shomari Figures at a series of Monday campaign stops in Mobile.

Students at Alabama State University in Montgomery may be sharpening up questions ahead of a sit-down meeting with Texas U.S. House member Jasmine Crockett, who is scheduled to visit Alabama in support of Shomari Figures. He’s running for the state’s newly redrawn Congressional District 2 against Republican Caroleene Dobson. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the new seat to better represent African American voters.

Vice President Kamala has former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton campaigning on her behalf. Democrat Shomari Figures is scheduled to have two familiar names in Democratic politics on hand starting this weekend for the final full week of campaigning for Alabama’s newly redrawn Congressional District 2.

The legal battle over Alabama’s Congressional Map drags on. A three-judge panel appointed a special master to draw new voting district lines. That work is due today. The court order for a redrawn map follows a refusal by Alabama Republicans to create a second African American majority district. The future of the State’s Congressional map appears to have national implications. And the U.S. Supreme Court has been asked by Alabama to weigh in on the matter again.

Alabama Republican lawmakers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional lines in place as the state continues to fight a court order to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it. Former Attorney General Eric Holder is asking the high court to do the opposite.

A three-judge panel is blocking Alabama's new congressional map after lawmakers failed to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, as suggested by the court. The ruling was cheered by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who leads the group Redistricting Foundation.

Voting rights activists are returning to court to fight Alabama's redrawn congressional districts, saying state Republicans failed to follow federal court orders to create a district that is fair to Black voters.

Plaintiffs, led by former Attorney General Eric Holder, opposed to Alabama’s newly redrawn Congressional voting map filed a legal challenge to the new districts. The action comes on the final day of public input before a three judge panel convenes in mid-August to consider the work of Republican lawmakers who declined to create a second black majority district in Alabama.

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