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13 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: August 9, 2026.
The Southern Poverty Law Center argued it was being prosecuted in retaliation for naming hate groups. U.S. District Judge Emily Marks ruled it offered no evidence of prosecutorial animus, and the 11-count case moves toward trial.
In a 6-3 order, the justices paused a ruling that had blocked Alabama's congressional map, clearing the state to use districts favoring Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
Representative Barry Moore, who supported Trump from his first campaign, confronts Jared Hudson in runoff that could signal shifting GOP dynamics.
WatchIn a 6-3 ruling, the justices let Alabama deploy a congressional map with only one majority-Black district for the 2026 midterms, likely costing Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures his seat.
The justices' unsigned emergency order lets Alabama use a map a lower court found intentionally diluted Black votes, drawing a sharp dissent from the court's three liberals.
WatchThe 20-year-old vanished near Kyoto during a family vacation after turning off his phone's location. A volunteer team found his body Saturday in rugged terrain that more than 100 police officers had failed to search successfully.
In an unsigned order, the justices paused a lower court's injunction, clearing the way for Alabama to vote under a congressional map that a three-judge panel found was tainted by intentional discrimination.
The 6-3 order vacates a lower-court ruling that had required a second majority-Black district and sends the Voting Rights Act dispute back for review under last month's Louisiana v. Callais framework.
Eighteen members of Congress, faith leaders and union organizers walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge in one of the South's largest voting-rights mobilizations in years, responding to the Supreme Court's April ruling that gutted protections for Black-majority districts.
A majority of justices sided with Alabama in a decision that could accelerate efforts to implement congressional maps reducing minority representation.
State officials hope to use districts that would boost Republican chances of flipping at least one Democratic-held seat, citing recent Supreme Court ruling.
Within nine days of Louisiana v. Callais, four Republican-led Southern states have launched coordinated mid-decade redistricting drives that strategists say could net the GOP between four and seven additional U.S. House seats.
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé was arrested amid an inheritance dispute after reconnecting with and marrying a former G.I.