Tag: REDISTRICTING

A provision in both special session redistricting plans would eliminate the runoff requirement for the special elections that would follow, allowing a winner-take-all primary.

Republican members of the Senate County and Municipal Government Committee passed a bill on Thursday that would allow the state to use congressional district maps if a federal court or the U.S. Supreme Court lifts an injunction on Alabama.

The Alabama Legislature is one day away from concluding the special legislative session and granting a possible electoral advantage to Republicans in the state after advancing legislation that would force the state to use currently-blocked electoral maps should federal courts act.

As the Alabama Legislature works through a special session on redistricting, Tyler Bowyer Chief Operating Officer of Turning Point U.S.A. is calling for the Republican super majority to pass a 7-0 map.

The special session on Alabama's congressional map has been marked by a peculiar silence from Republicans while Democrats continue to voice strong opposition.

State House flooding and fire alarms on Wednesday ended a Democrat filibuster on legislation to give Alabama the option to call a special election for two Montgomery-area State Senate districts later this year.  

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.

On Tuesday, the Houston County Republican Party hosted a candidate forum in downtown Dothan, ahead of the May 19 primary.

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.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Tuesday filed an emergency motion with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama asking the federal court to lift injunctions blocking Alabama from using its own congressional district map, following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that significantly changed the legal standards governing voting rights redistricting claims.

Monday, on Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall argued the U.S. Supreme Court's recent majority ruling in Louisiana vs. Callais "vindicates" Alabama's legal arguments against racially based redistricting.

Members of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee approved legislation introduced during the specially called legislative session on Tuesday that would require the state to hold a special election using a 2023 congressional map currently blocked by a federal court.

Mobile City Councilman Cory Penn said he believes the U.S. Supreme Court decision on redistricting based on race and Alabama’s reaction to it is “intentional racial discrimination.”

Republican members of a Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee on Tuesday passed legislation to give Alabama the option to call a special election for two Montgomery-area State Senate districts later this year. 

Representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other civil rights organizations across the state converged on the Montgomery State House to protest as lawmakers started the process of potentially redrawing the state’s Congressional map.

State Sen. Chris Elliott (R-Josephine) filed legislation on Tuesday on the first day of a special session to give Alabama the option to call a special election for two Montgomery-area State Senate districts later this year. 

Minutes after the Alabama House of Representatives adjourned for the first day of the recently called special session to address the state’s congressional map, House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) spoke about his expectations moving forward and addressed speculation surrounding the legislature’s actions.

As the Alabama Legislature convenes in special session this week to address the state's congressional map, U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) said the push for redistricting is President Donald Trump's way of tipping the midterm elections in Republicans' favor.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an emergency motion on Monday with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate or stay district court injunctions blocking Alabama from using its 2021 map for State Senate districts. 

As lawmakers converge at the Montgomery State House to prepare to address the state’s congressional maps, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is mobilizing citizens to the Capitol to “demand fair representation” in the proposed redistricting process.

The River Region Minority Republicans (RRMR), an area chapter of the Alabama Minority Republicans and Alabama Republican Party affiliate, recently gave a full-throated endorsement of the state’s upcoming efforts to redraw congressional lines.

In the sea of mixed reactions after Gov. Kay Ivey announced that the legislature would convene next week for a special session to address the state’s long-contested congressional lines, several Democratic lawmakers made their displeasure abundantly clear.

On Thursday's broadcast of Huntsville WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show," former congressman and candidate for Alabama House District 20, Mo Brooks, discussed the U.S. Supreme Court's historic majority ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.

Governor Kay Ivey called a special session on redistricting on Friday.

According to Katherine Robertson, the chief counsel for Alabama's attorney general, the U.S. Supreme Court's Wednesday decision in Louisiana v. Callais is vindication for decades of misinformed attacks by various federal courts against Alabama's congressional and legislative maps.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today filed emergency motions on Thursday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift injunctions blocking Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map, arguing that the injunctions cannot survive the court’s ruling on Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais. 

On Wednesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall praised the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark majority opinion in Louisiana v. Callais.