Tag: REDISTRICTING

On Mid-Day Mobile 106.5 FM Mobile, Speaker Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) openly questions the legal strategy and skills of the former attorney for the state Edmund “Eddie” LaCour.

Congressional districts should be drawn around geography, population and community – not race – where every party must show up and earn every vote.

During a Friday episode of Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) revealed a possible timeline for a transition to a 7-0 Republican dominated congressional map in Alabama.

During Friday's episode of Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show, " Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall discussed the failed attempt from a three-judge panel to block Alabama from implementing a 6-1 conservative-leaning congressional map drawn in 2023 for the 2026 election.

Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday celebrated Alabama’s major victory in the state’s congressional redistricting battle. 

Alabama should attempt to claw back some of the legal fees paid out to a court-ordered special master and left-wing plaintiffs after the state’s major victory in the state’s congressional redistricting battle on Tuesday, according to State Sen. Pro-Tem Garlan Gudger (R-Cullman).

The U.S. Supreme Court gave Alabama a “major victory” on Tuesday in its longstanding redistricting battle, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.

A U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling on Tuesday restoring Alabama’s 6-1 Republican congressional map for the 2026 elections is a “significant triumph for Alabama,” according to Secretary of State Wes Allen.

The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled in favor of Alabama’s efforts on Tuesday by a 6-3 majority to use a 6-1 Republican congressional map for the 2026 election.

During Friday's episode of Rightside Media's podcast, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) speculated about why some Alabama Republican lawmakers were seemingly reluctant to embrace changes to the state's congressional map to help create six or seven congressional districts that favored the GOP.

State Senate Districts 25 and 26 can now be held “using fairly drawn maps” after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to allow for the use of the 2021 Alabama-drawn State Senate map, according to State Sen. Garlan Gudger (R-Cullman).

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a recent ruling by United States District Judge Anna Manasco on Thursday that barred Alabama from using a State Senate map passed by the legislature in 2021.

The Department of Justice filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday backing Alabama’s efforts to use a 6-1 Republican congressional map for the 2026 election.

Givhan argued the court relied on events from the 1960s to support its ruling.

Gov. Kay Ivey delayed certification of August 11 special congressional primary ballots in case the U.S. Supreme Court stays a recent federal court ruling requiring Alabama to use a court-drawn, racially gerrymandered map.

During a Wednesday episode of Alabama's Morning News with JT, Republican candidate for Attorney General, Katherine Robertson, criticized a federal appeals court's recent ruling blocking a 6-1 conservative congressional map passed by Alabama legislators in 2023.

Alabama appealed a Tuesday ruling by a federal court forcing Alabama to use a congressional map that will likely lead to the election of two Democrats in 2026.

A three-judge panel of federal judges on Tuesday granted a motion by left-wing activist groups to block the use of a 6-1 Republican congressional map passed by lawmakers in 2023. 

A three-judge panel of federal judges considered on Friday a motion by left-wing activist groups to block the use of a congressional map passed by Republican lawmakers in 2023. 

On Thursday's broadcast of Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," former Alabama Republican Party chairman and candidate for Lt. governor, John Wahl, reaffirmed his support for transitioning Alabama's congressional map to a 7-0 conservative-dominated layout.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Hoover) joined 61 other Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members to block name, image, or likeness (NIL) reform, telling several conferences and the National Collegiate Athletic Association in letters that they cannot remain silent on current redistricting plans.

Folks, the Alabama Legislature is fumbling the ball on the one-yard line in the final minute of this political football game. It’s an absolute disaster that should have every conservative in this state fired up and prepared to break out the pitchfork and torches. 

After recent remarks were made by U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile), arguing that congressional redistricting in Alabama will disenfranchise black voters, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) criticized the hypocrisy of his fellow congressman for making such comments.

United States District Judge Anna Manasco denied a request on Monday by the State of Alabama to allow the use of a State Senate redistricting map drawn by the legislature in 2021.

On Friday, Fox News Channel viewers got a dose of a debate regarding Alabama's reaction to the Louisiana v. Callais U.S. Supreme Court decision.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) praised the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling against racially based congressional maps but cautioned against an immediate, attempted transition to a conservative-dominated 7-0 layout in Alabama.

Who will be able to run for the recently announced August congressional special elections?