Here are some updates from today.

• Alabama lawmakers advanced a new congressional map out of committee that does not include a second majority-Black district as the U.S. Supreme Court required in its decision in Allen v. Milligan. Alabama has until Friday to enact a new map, and a federal district court will review the map to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.

• Three lawsuits challenging Georgia's congressional and legislative maps will head to trial on Sept. 5. In all of the cases, voters argue that the Republican-drawn districts dilute the power of Black voters and violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

• In lawsuits over Louisiana's congressional map, a federal court set the hearing for Oct. 3-5. The scheduling order allows Louisiana to redraw its congressional map to contain a second majority-Black district as the state was previously ordered to do.

• Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R-Ohio) announced his run for U.S. Senate. LaRose has grown increasingly extreme in his anti-democracy rhetoric and actions and has a pattern of flip-flopping on issues of grave concern to voters. Read more about his record on voting here.

• An Arizona judge rejected Republican Abe Hamadeh's request for a second trial in his lawsuit contesting his loss in the 2022 attorney general race. Hamadeh's contest was first dismissed following the trial in December.

• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said that he supports ending the blue slips process in the Senate, which allows senators to approve or reject federal judicial nominees in their home states.

Here’s what’s coming up tomorrow.

• At 5 p.m. EDT, there will be oral argument in an appeal of a state-level lawsuit challenging Cochise County, Arizona’s attempts to hand count mail-in ballots during the 2022 midterm elections.

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