The NAACP and ACLU filed a temporary restraining order request in the Northern District of Alabama federal court on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated an order that barred Alabama from using a congressional map passed by Alabama Republican lawmakers in 2023.
SCOTUS struck down a 2023 federal court-ordered Alabama congressional map on Monday. Alabama will now use a likely 6-1 Republican-drawn map passed during a 2023 special session.
The court-ordered map used for the 2024 election resulted in Democrats sending two members to Congress in the last election.
"For that reason, and because voters are currently voting under the map this Court put into place in 2023 and any disturbance to that process will irreparably harm Plaintiffs and countless Alabamians who have already cast ballots, this Court should grant a temporary restraining order maintaining the status quo of this Court's remedial map until this Court can fully consider the merits or Plaintiffs can be heard on a preliminary injunction," attorneys for the ACLU and NAACP said in a filing on Monday after the SCOTUS ruling. "Moreover, even setting aside the likelihood of success on the merits, immediate relief is warranted based on imminent irreparable harm and the equities alone. Alabama voters have been voting for several weeks under the map put in place by this Court, with Election Day just over a week away."
A briefing schedule on the matter has been set for next week.
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