Tag: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS

Some candidates in Congressional Districts 1 and 2 reacted Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alabama could use a 2023 congressional map.

Following a federal appeals court's blocking of a 6-1 Republican congressional map passed by Alabama legislators in 2023, Speaker of the House Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) issued strong criticism of the verdict, calling it a "politically motivated attempt to weaponize the judicial system."

The Alabama House of Representatives was especially testy on Wednesday morning as lawmakers voted to invoke cloture during deliberations on a bill that would allow the state to utilize district maps it is currently federally enjoined from using.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) popped up in Montgomery on Tuesday morning, alongside Democratic state lawmakers, to bemoan the legislature's current efforts to clear a path for using congressional maps in the 2026 election cycle that have thus far been blocked in federal court.

The full trial of Allen v. Milligan, the state’s battle over congressional redistricting, is slated to kick off on Feb. 10, 2025, to rule on the constitutionality of lawmakers’ 2023 map that was thrown out by federal judges ahead of the 2024 general election.

U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) said he was concerned what the politically divided House was doing with the speaker vote was “dangerous” given the recent attacks on Israel and the general state of division in the U.S.

A federal court was “speaking out of both sides of its mouth” in its recent Alabama congressional redistricting rulings, according to U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville).

A federal court has ruled that Alabama may not use the recently drawn congressional map in the 2024 election and has assigned a special master and cartographer to draw a new map while the inevitable appeals from Attorney General Steve Marshall play out.

Three federal judges heard final arguments in the Allen v. Milligan redistricting case on Monday before they decide the fate of a congressional map passed by Republicans in a special session within the next couple of weeks.

Democrats and the media have dismissed the chances of a new congressional map passed by Republican state legislators succeeding in an upcoming hearing in federal court.

Conservative legal experts have differing opinions about how successful the state of Alabama will be in defending the state’s new congressional map in court.

Andalusia Mayor Earl Johnson told 1819 News on Monday that the ramifications for his city are not yet evident in response to the state’s new congressional district map, which moved the majority of Covington County away from its traditional place in District 2 to District 1.

A conference committee made up of six members from the House and Senate passed a new congressional redistricting map on Friday. 

Members of House and Senate committees advanced two redistricting maps on Tuesday morning.

A new congressional map that doesn’t pit any incumbents against each other was approved by the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment on Monday.

Gov. Kay Ivey has officially announced the special legislative session for lawmakers to redraw congressional maps after being compelled by a Supreme Court ruling.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) is appealing a decision by a federal court that would require the legislature to draw a...

By Brandon Mosley  Legislators are reviewing several draft maps showing redistricting proposals for Alabama, ahead of the special session...