During Friday's episode of WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show," State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) was asked when Alabama will join the national redistricting fight and remove U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) and Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) from their seats.
The move, according to Orr, could come after an ongoing legal action outside of Alabama is settled.
"We would enter the fight after the decision in the Callais case that's currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court," Orr told host Dale Jackson.
"And if that decision is clear and goes in the way we hope it will go, which is they take the race situation out of the mix and just let politics be politics, and let the political elected legislatures or whomever, draw the lines however they want to and quit all the race-based redistricting that leads to just other problems and other problems. If they do that, then yes, we will move with haste to redraw the congressional lines," he added.
Orr also noted that redistricting at the state legislative level is a possibility.
"Of course, you know all of this is contingent on the ruling and the Callais case being a certain way; they could not do anything," Orr noted.
"There's just multiple variations of what they could do," he continued. "But, and I'm just one person in the mix, but I think if that case were to go the way that we would hope, it would go, like I said, that there would be a high potential for a redistricting effort if there's time and other measures or that need to be considered or adequately addressed."
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