Alabama lawmakers will hold their first meeting next week to determine what the state’s new congressional map should look like.
The chairmen of the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment released a schedule for hearings on Wednesday.
A three-judge panel last week gave lawmakers until July 21 to adopt a new congressional map.
The deadline comes after the U.S. Supreme Court last week affirmed the panel’s finding that Alabama unlawfully diluted the influence of Black voters by drawing a map with only one majority-Black district.
The reapportionment committee set a June 27 public hearing, a July 7 deadline to submit plans to the committee, and another public hearing for July 13.
