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Supreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama and protects landmark Voting Rights Act

In a surprising ruling on June 8, 2023, the conservative leaning U.S. Supreme Court threw out Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama that a lower court had ruled discriminated against Black voters and violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Why did the right-leaning supreme court hand Democrats a victory?

Perhaps they know they need to preserve whatever is left of their legitimacy

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Surprise US supreme court ruling could help Democrats take House in 2024

Ruling on Alabama congressional map gives Black voters more opportunities to elect candidates of their choice

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Court ruling on Black political power in Alabama could affect maps in other states

A major Supreme Court decision in an Alabama redistricting case could provide a roadmap for other gerrymandering challenges. There are similar challenges to maps elsewhere in the South.

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Joran van der Sloot, chief suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance, extradited to US

Holloway, who lived in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she vanished during a trip with classmates to Aruba in 2005

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Four controversial doctors helping Republicans attack trans healthcare

A wave of new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors relies on a number of doctors with ties to rightwing groups and little experience treating transgender patients

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court voting rights ruling stuns minority voters, who hope it expands their representation

This week’s Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional maps was seen by many minority lawmakers and voting rights activists as a stunning victory with the potential to become a major stepping stone for undoing gerrymandered political maps that dilute the political strength of communities of color

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U.S. Supreme Court overturns Alabama’s congressional maps in Allen v. Milligan decision

On June 8, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Alabama’s congressional redistricting plan adopted in November 2021 and used in the state’s 2022 elections violated the Voting Rights Act and must be redrawn to include a second majority-Black district.

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Casey White sentenced to life in prison after breaking out of Alabama jail with female corrections officer

Convicted felon broke out of Lauderdale County Detention Center in April 2022 with help from guard Vicky White before going on the run for two weeks

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Expert: SCOTUS wrongly awarded GOP House

Supreme Court rejecting Alabama maps that diluted Black voting power may have big implications in other states

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Alabama ruling could help Democrats in multiple states - Roll Call

Democrats could pick up several seats as a result of a Supreme Court ruling in an Alabama case upholding part of the Voting Rights Act.

Roll Call

US Supreme Court rules in favour of Alabama Black voters

Court ruled that Republican redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act’s provisions against racial discrimination.

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Supreme Court Reaffirms Strong Presumption of Statutory Stare Decisis

It did so in today's Voting Rights Act ruling in Allen v. Milligan. This holding has implications for other cases where litigants attempt to overturn statutory precedents, especially longstanding ones.

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Supreme Court rules Alabama discriminated against Black voters in major victory for voting rights

A surprise 5-4 decision on the conservative-majority panel is a rare win in defense of the Voting Rights Act

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Supreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama redistricting case

The Supreme Court has issued a surprising ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black population

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Natalee Holloway suspect Joran van der Sloot is extradited to the US

Holloway, who lived in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she vanished during a trip with classmates to Aruba in 2005

WEKU

Supreme Court unexpectedly upholds provision prohibiting racial gerrymandering

The Supreme Court has ruled against Alabama's defense of an electoral map drawn by the state's Republican-dominated legislature. Black voters had challenged the law as racially discriminatory.

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Alabama discriminated against Black voters, US supreme court rules

John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh join liberal justices in 5-4 decision that is major victory for Voting Rights Act

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Supreme Court backs challenge to Alabama congressional map - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Black voters who challenged Alabama’s congressional map as a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

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Main suspect in 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway due to be extradited to US

The main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama student Natalee Holloway is expected to be handed over to U.S. officials in Peru and flown to the United States on Thursday

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Alabama senator says Space Command prefers Huntsville for HQ, but command has no comment

Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville says the top general in charge of U.S. Space Command told him during a meeting Wednesday that Huntsville, not Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the preferred location for its new headquarters

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Music Review: Jason Isbell's writing flair sings in latest with 400 Unit, 'Weathervanes'

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have created another Alabama-accented earworm of an album that flaunts the power of his voice, guitar and lyrics

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Voting rights marcher recalls being clubbed, hearing fatal gunshot during pivotal day of protests

Della Simpson Maynor was just 14 when she marched for voting rights in her hometown of Marion, Alabama, but she says she clearly remembers the police attacking the demonstrators

Wales Online

The American gospel choir with a historic link to Wales which just performed outside a house in Cardiff

They unveiled a new mural from the creators of some of the city's iconic public art

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Supreme Court opened the door to states’ voting restrictions. Now a new ruling could widen them

A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country

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