A demonstrator holds up an indication outdoors the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, Could, 7 2026.
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A panel of federal judges on Monday blocked Alabama from utilizing congressional district maps that will dilute the votes of Black individuals within the 2026 midterm elections.
The ruling in U.S. District Courtroom in Birmingham, Ala., units the stage for the Supreme Courtroom to find out whether or not the maps, which have been first proposed in 2023, can be utilized by Alabama this yr.
The three-judge panel issued its ruling in response to the Supreme Courtroom telling it to revisit the query of whether or not the maps might be utilized in mild of the Supreme Courtroom’s latest ruling in a case often known as Louisiana v. Callais, which discovered that Louisiana’s drawing of its personal congressional map was a racial gerrymander.
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