Special master submits 3 redistricting plans to Court

In June, the three-judge panel that is hearing Alabama’s Congressional redistricting case ordered the State Legislature to prepare a new redistricting map that created two majority Black congressional districts “or something close to it.” The Legislature held a special session in July and refused to follow that order, instead adopting a redistricting map by State Sen. Steve Livingston (R-Scottsboro) that simply increased the Black voting age population in Alabama’s Second Congressional District from 30% to 39.9%. RELATED: U.S. Supreme Court rejects Alabama Legislature’s maps However, the cour