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Alabama is once again asking the Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional districts. In essence, the state is fighting a court order that the high court upheld just months ago.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency bid from Alabama, setting the stage for a new congressional map likely to include a second Black majority district to account for the state’s ...
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of Selma police in a lawsuit filed by Faya Rose Toure, an attorney and longtime political activist from Selma. Toure sued the city of Selma, former ...
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatments.
WASHINGTON − The case is about Alabama's congressional districts, but the decision by the Supreme Court could have far-reaching implications for the rest of the nation. Alabama officials filed ...
Supreme Court rulings are meant to be the law of the land, but Alabama is taking its recent opinion on the Voting Rights Act as a mere recommendation. In an echo of mid-century southern defiance ...
The Supreme Court will decide if Alabama can openly defy its decisions. Alabama’s racially gerrymandered maps are back before the Supreme Court, this time with a dollop of massive resistance.
It’s in that sense that the Alabama Supreme Court’s opinion can be traced directly to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Both Alabama’s original actions and its defiance of a direct Supreme Court order testify to the necessity of the Voting Rights Act, despite the Roberts Court’s long record of hostility towards it.