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[ad_1] A voter wearing a protective mask enters a polling location in Opelika, Alabama, U.S., on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alabama Republicans on Friday defied a U.S.  Supreme Court  order by passing a new congressional map that includes only one  majority-Black district . The GOP-controlled Legislature had called a special session to redraw an earlier map after the Supreme Court reaffirmed a federal court order to include two districts where Black voters make up voting-age majorities, "or something quite close to it." But on Friday, state Republicans approved a new map with just one majority-Black seat and a second district that is approximately 40% Black. The map was completed Friday afternoon — hours before the court-ordered deadline for the Legislature to draw up new boundaries — as a compromise between the House and Senate versions. Democrats slammed the map and its drafters, arguing that legislators ignored a court order an...

[ad_1] Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie arrives to speak at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 23, 2023 in Washington, DC.  Drew Angerer | Getty Images Former New Jersey Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie launched his latest blitz against Donald Trump on "Fox News Sunday." He claimed that the former president has lied about the size of his rally crowds and failed to keep his policy promises. "The people in the Republican Party, and quite broadly across America, are tired of having political candidates who are snake oil salesmen who just don't tell them the truth, who tell them whatever they think they want to hear at the moment," Christie told Fox News. Christie deemed the estimated sizes of Trump's rally crowds "absurd." "Tens of thousands don't show up anymore. That's another one of the big lies," he adde...