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Arise legislative update: Update on Alabama redistricting case


The Alabama redistricting lawsuit continued this week as a federal court struck down the state’s congressional map once again. The Legislature approved the map in July after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the state’s original map likely violated the Voting Rights Act. But federal judges this week said the new map still failed to comply with the act. Arise’s Akiesha Anderson gives an update on what happened and what’s to come in Alabama’s redistricting case.