A federal court has reaffirmed that the VRA must be enforced in Alabama—meaning the state must continue to have 2 Black opportunity districts.

Today’s ruling confirms what we’ve known all along: Black Alabamians have a fundamental right to *real* electoral power.

ICYMI: NRF Calls on Federal Court to Protect Alabama’s Voting Rights Act-Compliant Map — NRF For Immediate Release February 10, 2025 Contact Madia Coleman coleman@redistrictingfoundation.org Washington, D.C. – Today, a two-week trial began before the U.S. District Court for the Northern...

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The court should make Alabama’s current, Voting Rights Act (VRA)-compliant map permanent for the rest of the decade. That map, which was adopted by the lower federal court following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Allen v. Milligan, includes two Black opportunity districts.

Yesterday, a two-week trial began in Caster v. Allen, a redistricting lawsuit that will determine the fate of Alabama’s congressional map.

The NRF is calling on the district court to reject the state’s attempts to re-install a gerrymandered map that includes just one Black opportunity district.

“The conservative states behind this lawsuit are attempting to depart from the bedrock theory of the Constitution that everyone—every person—should be counted equally for the purpose of congressional apportionment.”

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The case is an effort to exclude undocumented & temporary residents from apportionment & undermine the 2030 Census. The Constitution requires that “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each State."

Census news: The NRF is supporting a group of California & Texas voters in moving to intervene in Louisiana v. Dept. of Commerce—voters who are seeking to protect their congressional & Electoral College representation from a challenge by conservative states to a fair and accurate census count.

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