As of 2020, Alabama's congressional map consisted of six white-majority districts and one Black-majority district, despite the state's population being approximately 30% Black.

The Alabama legislature passed a new congressional map in 2023 that is expected to result in six Republican representatives and one Democratic representative.

The Supreme Court's decision in the Louisiana versus Calais case has made it significantly more difficult for vote dilution claims under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to be successful.

A three-judge federal panel, consisting of two Trump appointees and one Clinton appointee, found Alabama's 2023 legislative map to be unconstitutional and in violation of the Voting Rights Act, even u...

Richard Brafault suggests the Supreme Court might stay the lower court's injunction on Alabama's 2023 voting map, allowing it to be used for the upcoming election, and then hear the case on its merits...

Following a court order, a special master created a new congressional map for Alabama which resulted in the election of two Black representatives in 2024 for the first time since Reconstruction.

In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed by a 5-to-4 vote a lower court's finding that Alabama had violated the Voting Rights Act.