In Photos: A Tumultuous Alabama Special Session, Marked by Protest

Why Alabama Republicans may end up regretting the special session

Sheyann Webb-Christburg (bottom center, holding microphone) speaks to a rally against redistricting on May 4, 2026 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. As an eight-year-old, Webb-Christburg marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 before law enforcement attacked protestors after they crossed, an event known as "Bloody Sunday" and a spur for the Voting Rights Act. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)The Republicans screwed u…

In photos: A tumultuous Alabama special session, marked by protest

Voters hold signs saying "Hands Off Our Votes" and "Our Vote Our Voice Our Power" outside the Alabama Statehouse on May 4, 2026 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. The Alabama Legislature began a special session Monday that could result in changes to primary elections and current congressional legislative district lines. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector)The Alabama Legislature on Friday passed two bills that would allow the state to …

Alabama GOP Pushes New Congressional Map Before Primaries

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation on Friday giving herself authority to schedule special primary elections in congressional and state Senate districts if federal courts allow Republicans to swap the current court-ordered map for one the legislature drew in 2023. The move came on the same day Alabama Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift the injunction keeping the existing map in place, and just eleven days before the state's re…