A court-appointed special master on Monday submitted three proposals for new congressional districts in Alabama after federal judges ruled the state must provide greater representation for Black voters
The three-judge panel has tentatively scheduled an Oct. 3 hearing on the special master's proposed plans.
“There will be more to review as we get access to the block files supporting these recommended maps, but what’s clear is that the Special Master did what the state had to date simply refused to do: take the directives of the local court seriously. Each proposal appears to create two districts that are either majority Black or close to it," Crayton said.
However, Allen wrote that the lines were not drawn on the basis of race and did not target a particular Black population percentage in any district. But he said the proposals follow the court's directive that the state should have an additional district in which Black voters “have an opportunity to elect a representative of their choice."
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