Alabama will hold a special primary election for four of its seven congressional districts, after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a map that had been blocked by the courts.

The Supreme Court has given Alabama the go-ahead to use a congressional map that will likely remove a Democratic incumbent from the state. In a 6-3 ruling issued Monday, the court’s conservative majority granted a request from Alabama’s Republican leaders to lift an injunction that blocked the state from using a map the Legislature adopted in 2023.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Monday allowed Alabama to revert to a congressional map with one majority-Black district in a sudden ruling that drew a dissent from the court’s three liberal justices.

The Supreme Court on Monday wiped out a decision blocking Alabama Republicans’ congressional map, potentially allowing it to be used for the midterms in the wake of the justices’ recent blockbuster

A national redistricting battle over U.S. House seats swung toward Republicans on Friday, as a Virginia court invalidated a Democratic gerrymandering effort and Republicans in Alabama approved plans for new primary elections if courts allow GOP-drawn House districts to be used in the November midterm elections.

CNN Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Paula Reid explains why Virginia Democrats have asked the US Supreme Court to let them use new congressional map

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is standing by his decision to declare a state of emergency and suspend the state’s congressional primaries after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s

Democrats scrambled over the weekend to respond to setbacks in the national redistricting fight, most recently the Virginia Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision last week to nullify the state’s voter-approved congressional map.