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A big change just went down in Alabama that can change the entire political makeup of this country.

We'll talk about it first thing in today's core four.

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Welcome to the morning show podcast. My name is Anthony.

I'm Carla Marie, and today is Friday, October 6th, 2020.

The Corps 4. The four headlines you need to know.

The state of Alabama may have just changed the entire political landscape of the United States.

Let me explain.

Back in 2022, a court found that Alabama Republicans had violated the Voting Rights Act by

unevenly dividing the state's seven congressional districts.

What does that mean?

Basically, they drew one district around the state's most populated area, which also happened to be the most democratic and the blackest part of the state.

The other six districts were all drawn to favor mostly Republican and white voters in Alabama.

That meant that even though black voters made up about a quarter of Alabama's population, they would only get one representative

in Congress compared to the six that would represent mostly white Republicans in the state.

And even though a court ruled over a year ago that this districting was illegal, the state

of Alabama tried to fight the ruling by sending it to the Supreme Court twice.

But then the Supreme Court also ruled that the state had violated the Voting Rights Act.

So Republicans in Alabama went back and made tiny adjustments to their state's congressional map.

And those maps were also thrown out by multiple courts because they didn't make any real changes.

So finally, Republicans just refused to change the map anymore despite the Supreme

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