An increase of 32% to 42%. Or an increase of 32% to 38%.

That’s the change in the percentage of Black voting age population that would happen in congressional District 2 under two plans the Republican majority is advancing through the Alabama Legislature.

A three-judge federal court, with two President Trump appointees, has told the Legislature it must add a second majority Black district, or something close to that, to fix what the court found was most likely a violation of the Voting Rights Act because of the dilution of Black voter influence in a state with racially polarized voting.

On the current map, Alabama has one majority Black district out of seven. The state’s population is one-fourth Black. The three-judge court, in a ruling affirmed by the Supreme Court, said the Black population is large enough and compact enough to draw a reasonably configured second majority Black district.

The two Republican plans, called the Pringle plan and the Livingston plan, are scheduled for consideration Wednesday at the State House.

Rep. Chris Pringle, R-Mobile, and Sen. Steve Livingston, R-Scottsboro, co-chairs of the Legislature’s reapportionment committee, say their plans are responsive to the court’s order by making District 2 the second district where Black voters would have a chance to elect a candidate of their choice. Both plans received strong Republican support in committees. Both plans would retain District 7 as Alabama’s only majority Black district, as it has been since 1992.

Democrats say the Pringle and Livingston plans fall short of fixing the Voting Rights Act problem.

Sen. Vivian Davis Figures, D-Mobile, said District 2 under the plans would not meet the court mandate of a second district with a majority Black voting age population “or something quite close to it.”

“Close to it, to me, is 47, 48 or 49 (percent), ” Figures said.

The three-judge district court has given the Legislature until Friday to approve a new map that would be used in next year’s elections.

House and Senate committees on Tuesday rejected plans proposed by Democrats, including one that was proposed by the plaintiffs in the lawsuits who won prevailed in their arguments at the Supreme Court. That plan, sponsored by Figures and Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, would raise the Black voting age population in District 2 to slightly more than 50%.

The House convenes at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, and the Senate at 3.