Alabama congressional redistricting case heads back to federal court

The battle over Alabama’s congressional district lines will go to federal court Friday, before the judges who ruled a 2023 map unconstitutional but after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais weakening the Voting Rights Act.

The three-judge panel will consider a request from plaintiffs in Allen v. Milligan, the case challenging the congressional maps, and two other related cases. If granted, the preliminary injunction would prevent the state from reverting to the old map and holding special primaries in August in the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th congressional districts under the 2023 map. It would also certify the primary election results on Tuesday, which took place under the current court-ordered map.

Alabama, however, said the remedial maps are invalid because they do not meet the interests of the state.

“Yet it is undisputed that Plaintiffs’ illustrative maps and the Court’s remedial map ‘do not achieve all the political goals of the Legislature, particularly the goal of keeping Mobile and Baldwin Counties whole and together in one congressional district,’” said the Alabama Secretary of State’s motion to oppose the preliminary injunction.




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