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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