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The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The list of states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors includes Alabama.
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The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism for more than two decades, laid in repose at the court's Great Hall. O'Connor, an Arizona native, died December first, at the age of 93. Flags in Alabama will fly at half-staff on the day of her funeral.
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Alabama Republican lawmakers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional lines in place as the state continues to fight a court order to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it. Former Attorney General Eric Holder is asking the high court to do the opposite.
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Federal judges reviewing Alabama's new congressional map sharply questioned if state lawmakers ignored the court's directive to create a second-majority Black district, so minority voters have a fair opportunity to influence elections.
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In two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 summer recess, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote majority opinions that involved the use of race. Alabama figures into this conversation.
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The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state's congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a ruling striking down the districts and ordered further consideration of the case. The Supreme Court's brief order was the fourth this month addressing redistricting conducted by states based on the 2020 census. Its other decisions dealt with Republican-drawn U.S. House districts in Alabama and Louisiana, which lower courts said likely violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of Black residents.
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The Supreme Court has issued a surprising ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black population.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who requested he be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia when executed.
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It was on this date back in 1956 that city buses in Montgomery were integrated. A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court the day before cleared the way for African American passengers to sit where they chose.
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The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on a request for a new trial for a man convicted of killing a Deputy Sheriff. The district attorney, former state attorney general, and a former chief justice all say the case should be re-examined.