{"id":74023,"date":"2026-05-26T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/federal-court-blocks-alabama-from-using-gop-drawn-congressional-map\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:02:04","slug":"federal-court-blocks-alabama-from-using-gop-drawn-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/federal-court-blocks-alabama-from-using-gop-drawn-congressional-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal court blocks Alabama from using GOP-drawn congressional map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-judge panel on Tuesday blocked a Republican-drawn congressional map in Alabama from going into effect, writing that the district lines \u201cintentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the Constitution.\u201d\u201cWe cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination,\u201d the panel of federal judges wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-judge panel on Tuesday blocked a Republican-drawn congressional map in Alabama from going into effect, writing that the district lines \u201cintentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the Constitution.\u201d\u201cWe cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based &#8230; <a title=\"Federal court blocks Alabama from using GOP-drawn congressional map\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/federal-court-blocks-alabama-from-using-gop-drawn-congressional-map\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal court blocks Alabama from using GOP-drawn congressional map\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}