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Supreme Court clears way for Alabama Republicans to pursue new voting map

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“The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for Alabama Republicans to pursue a congressional voting map more favorable to their party ahead of November's midterm elections”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 Alabama Supreme Court election took place on November 5, 2024, to elect five of the nine members to the Supreme Court of Alabama, including the Chief Justice. The justices will serve six-year…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for stagger…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Alabama
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“The justices lifted a lower court's decision that had blocked state Republicans' preferred map as racially discriminatory and for illegally diluting the voting power of Black Alabamians.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 Alabama Supreme Court election took place on November 5, 2024, to elect five of the nine members to the Supreme Court of Alabama, including the Chief Justice. The justices will serve six-year…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for stagger…
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“this previous map, which would drop the number of districts where Black voters comprise a majority, or near-majority, from two to one out of the state's seven U.S. House districts.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Black is a town in Geneva County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1905. It is part of the Dothan, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the population was 221, an incre…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region's rich, black soil, much of it in the soil order Vertisols. The term took on an additional meaning i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Black Belt in the American South is a geopolitical region comprising areas with both historical and current majority African American populations. The term for the geopolitical region comes from t…
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“The order was powered by the nine-member court's conservative majority. The three liberal justices dissented”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for stagger…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court Building houses the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. The building serves as the official workplace of the chief ju…
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“In its landmark April 29 ruling, the court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative members, struck down an electoral map that had given Louisiana a second Black-majority U.S. congressional district.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the chief justice of the United State…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over s…
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“Alabama immediately filed emergency motions asking the justices to allow it to revert to an older map with only a single majority-Black district.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Alabama on Friday filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court asking the high court to allow it to throw out its current rigged congressional map.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday allowed Alabama to revert to a congressional map with one majority-Black district in a sudden ruling that drew a dissent from the court’s three libe…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alabama officials are likely to point to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to ask the lower court judge to allow the state to use a congressional map first approved in 2023, but never used in light of…
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“Alabama, where Black voters make up a quarter of the electorate, had been ordered by a lower court to use a map that includes two majority-Black districts out of seven.”
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web search NEUTRAL — LOWER definition: 1. to move something into a low position: 2. to reduce something: 3. to make something worse than…. Learn more.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1. being below one or more other things: the lower shelf; the lower animals. 2. reduced in amount or value: a lower price.
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“Both are held by Black Democrats.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Republicans dominate elected office in Alabama and are in charge of redistricting. They have been resistant to creating a second district with a Democratic-leaning Black majority that could send anoth…
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web search NEUTRAL — If Alabama indeed reverts to the 2023 map, it would likely leave only one Black-majority Democratic congressional district. But that’s not the only option under consideration. On Friday, Alabama House…
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web search NEUTRAL — That would allow Republicans to overhaul one or both of the state’s two predominantly Black congressional districts, both of which are represented by Black Democrats, and impose a new map this year.
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-digest-southern-rep…
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“the court's April 29 decision, called Louisiana v. Callais.”
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“In 2023, the court had upheld the lower court's decision that the state's Republican-drawn electoral map diluted Black voters' power, violating the Voting Rights Act.”
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“That 5-4 ruling was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, and he was joined by fellow conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the court's three liberal justices.”
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“the boundaries of legislative districts across the United States are reconfigured to reflect population changes as measured by the national census conducted every 10 years.”
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“Redistricting typically has been carried out by state legislatures once per decade.”
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“Trump initiated an unprecedented mid-decade effort to redraw maps in Republican-led states, starting with Texas.”
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