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The U.S. Supreme Court today granted Alabama’s bid to temporarily halt a district court ruling that had required the state to redraw its new congressional map to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
A federal court today struck down Alabama’s newly drawn congressional map.
Today, the Treasury Department issued its final rules on how states may use the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.
Today, the ACLU of Alabama, 23 other local organizations, and dozens of individuals all sent a letter demanding that U.S. House Financial Services Committee urgently investigate the State of Alabama’s ill-conceived plan to spend $400 million dollars of COVID relief funds to build prisons.
This week, state legislators pre-filed HB23, a bill that would ban abortion at 6 weeks of pregnancy and is similar to the abortion ban passed in Texas that is currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court.
Individual voters joined with civil rights and faith groups today to file a pair of lawsuits in federal court challenging Alabama’s newly drawn political maps for state legislative and congressional districts.