MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Alabama to use a new state Senate map in upcoming legislative elections after ruling that districts drawn by lawmakers illegally diluted the voting ...

A federal judge ordered Tuesday for Alabama to use a new state senate map, which changes the borders of two districts in and around the capital city in an effort to give greater representation to ...

The new boundaries are meant to balance out the Black vote after the original map illegally diluted the voting power of African Americans.

Alabama State Conference of the NAACP v. Allen challenges Alabama’s most recently drawn state legislative maps as dilutive of Black voting power in the state in violation of Section 2 of the Voting ...