Attorneys representing the state of Alabama will appeal a three-judge federal panel ruling on May 8 that found the congressional redistricting map passed by Alabama Republican lawmakers in 2023 violated the Voting Rights Act.
A spokesman for Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall told 1819 News on Monday that they plan to appeal the ruling.
The State of Alabama is still defending its congressional map, which legislators approved in 2023. A special master hired by a three-judge panel in Birmingham redrew the map for the 2024 congressional elections after Democrats and liberal groups were successful in their initial legal challenge. The issue is still being litigated.
United States Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus, United States District Judge Anna Manasco, and United States District Judge Terry Moorer ruled the 2023 plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
In the ruling, the judges said they’d take up the plaintiffs' application to “bail Alabama back into federal preclearance for future congressional districting” at a status conference at noon Wednesday, May 28. Preclearance, if approved, would allow the federal court to oversee Alabama redistricting for as long as it sees fit.
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