Federal Court Bars Alabama From Using Racially Gerrymandered Map
The judges said the map was intentionally discriminatory and blocked its use, adding confusion to Alabama’s 2026 primary elections.
- On Tuesday, a federal panel of judges blocked Alabama from using its 2023 map, ruling the plan intentionally discriminates based on race in violation of the Constitution despite the Supreme Court's recent Callais decision.
- In 2022, the same lower court panel found an earlier iteration violated the Voting Rights Act, but the Supreme Court blocked that ruling because it came too close to the primary election, ultimately costing Democrats House seats.
- Court findings revealed the map so blatantly targeted Black voters that judges ordered an independent special master to redraw it and barred state redistricting until 2030, writing Alabamians cannot vote under a plan 'tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.'
- Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall immediately appealed to the Supreme Court while Secretary of State Wes Allen confirmed votes in four districts will be discarded after an August primary potentially held under the gerrymandered map.
- Historically, the Supreme Court's Purcell principle has enabled discriminatory maps by citing election proximity concerns; similar stays in Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia likely cost Democrats around four House seats in 2022, contributing to Republicans' five-seat majority.
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Federal Court Bars Alabama From Using Racially Gerrymandered Map
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A three-judge federal panel ruled Alabama cannot use its 2023 Republican-drawn congressional map for the 2026 elections, keeping a court-approved map with two majority-Black districts in place. Alabama is expected to appeal immediately to the Supreme Court.
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