Alabama lawmakers clash over Black voters as redistricting deadline looms

U.S. Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL) speaks, at the commemoration of the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”, when state troopers beat peaceful voting rights protesters who were marching against discrimination, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, U.S. March 5, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo July 20 (Reuters) – Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature faced a Friday deadline to approve a new congressional map that would boost the number of Black voters in one of the state’s districts after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that its current map was unconstitutional and violated the Voting Rights Act.

But Democrats and civil rights groups argued […]

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