{"id":432,"date":"2025-03-06T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/?p=432"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:58:12","slug":"alabama-republicans-refuse-to-draw-a-second-black-congressional-district-in-defiance-of-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Republicans refuse to draw a second Black congressional district in defiance of Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The GOP-controlled Legislature had called a special session to redraw an earlier map after the Supreme Court reaffirmed a federal court order to include two districts where Black voters make up voting-age majorities, \u201cor something quite close to it.\u201d But on Friday, state Republicans approved a new map with just one majority-Black seat and a second district that is approximately 40% Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715\">Full Story<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP-controlled Legislature had called a special session to redraw an earlier map after the Supreme Court reaffirmed a federal court order to include two districts where Black voters make up voting-age majorities, \u201cor something quite close to it.\u201d But on Friday, state Republicans approved a new map with just one majority-Black seat and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodresearch.org\/TTR\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}