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A three-judge panel has blocked Alabama’s new congressional map after lawmakers failed to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, as suggested by the court MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Federal judges said Tuesday that they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, as suggested by the court. In blocking the newly drawn congressional map, the three-judge panel wrote that they are “deeply troubled” that Alabama lawmakers flouted their instruction to create a second majority-Black district or something close to it. A designated special master will be tapped to draw new districts for the state, the judges ordered. “This is a significant step toward equal representation for Black Alabamians,” said former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Re district ing Committee, which backed one of the cour...

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Wednesday accused the county’s district attorney of a cover-up in connection with the ongoing investigation into the 2022 school shooting. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Wednesday accused the county’s district attorney, Christina Mitchell, of a cover-up in connection with the ongoing investigation into the 2022 school shooting in the community and called on her to resign as the city reinstated a lawsuit seeking access to law enforcement records connected with the rampage that killed 21. Mitchell “has been involved in a cover-up regarding the city’s investigation into the Robb School tragedy,” the mayor said in a statement. The DA did not respond to messages from ABC seeking comment. Mayor Don McLaughlin made comments at a news conference that kicked off a week of commemorations to mark one year since the massacre that killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. ABC News/Nicolas Quiñones MORE: Uvalde: A Year Later The renewed lawsuit , filed on...

An appeals court has returned E. Jean Carroll's defamation case to a judge who had rejected former President Trump's claim that he was acting in his official capacity. A federal appeals court in New York on Friday returned E. Jean Carroll's initial case against former President Donald Trump to a district court judge who had previously decided Trump did not act within the scope of his employment as president when he denied Carroll's rape claim and allegedly defamed her. Carroll, a former Elle columnist who alleges that Trump attacked her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman luxury department store in the 1990s, claims Trump defamed her in 2019 when, during his presidency, he denied her rape claim by calling her a liar and saying "she's not my type." Trump, who also denies the accusations, has argued that the Justice Department should be substituted as the defendant in the case because, at the time of his allegedly defamatory statements, he w...

A mother has filed a federal lawsuit after her middle school daughter was allegedly strip searched. The mother of an Ohio middle school er is suing her daughter 's school district , alleging a nurse's aide strip searched the girl. The federal lawsuit, filed on Dec. 28, names Willoughby-Eastlake Schools Board of Education and three Eastlake School Middle employees as defendants. The lawsuit alleges violations of the teen's constitutional rights, failure to train school employees, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. On Sept. 27, the unnamed middle schooler — a current eighth grade student at Eastlake Middle School — was approached by another student who asked to leave her vape pen in the teen's gym locker, according to the lawsuit. The student "begrudgingly agreed," the lawsuit states. MORE: Schools getting more police but at the expense of counselors, nurses: Report Just before lunch the same day, the school 's principal Colleen Blauroc...