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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.

  • Republican lawmakers in Alabama have approved plans for special primary elections.

  • Kyle Gassett of Troy Public Radio reports the state attorney general

  • is asking to have a legal embargo on the new maps overturned.

  • Amid protests both outside and inside the statehouse from voting rights activists.

  • Alabama's Republicans are proposing maps that weaken the power of two current black majority districts.

  • Alabama has seven representatives and recently elected two Democratic and black representatives

  • following a Supreme Court decision that the state's previous maps diluted the power of black voters.

  • With last week's Louisiana case ruling and a seeming reversal from the Supreme Court,

  • Alabama's GOP wants both new maps and primary election plans in place before the midterm elections.

  • Alabama's attorney general has filed an emergency motion seeking to overturn a ruling

  • that kept the state from changing maps until 2030.

  • For NPR News, I'm Kyle Gassett in Montgomery, Alabama.

  • A group of protesters is suing the Department of Homeland Security to stop federal officers from taking the DNA of U.S. Citizens