Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen filed an emergency motion requesting expedited review of the state’s redistricting case.

The motion follows the Supreme Court’s ruling to strike down a provision of the Voting Rights Act requiring majority-minority House districts.

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“As the appellant in Alabama’s redistricting case, I have taken the legal measures necessary, in cooperation with Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall to ask the US Supreme Court to take quick and decisive action which will allow Alabama to pursue congressional maps that reflect the will of the people,” Allen said.

“It is my hope that our right as Alabamians to draw districts will be swiftly restored and that the days of court appointed mapmakers will be behind us," he added.

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The motion seeks to lift the Supreme Court’s injunctions blocking Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map, which the Court ruled had intentionally diluted the voting power of Black Alabamians.

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The decision led to the formation of a second majority-Black congressional district now represented by Congressman Shomari Figures.

Marshall claimed that the injunctions cannot survive the court’s ruling on Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais.

Marshall filed the motions in three key redistricting cases: Allen v. Singleton, Allen v. Milligan, and Allen v. Caster.

“The Supreme Court has now made clear that you cannot assume race and politics are the same thing, you have to actually show they’re separate,” Marshall said, according to the outlet.

“Because the lower court’s injunction cannot stand in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling, we have asked the court to lift the injunction. Alabama deserves the right to use its own maps, just like every other state," he added.

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Gov. Kay Ivey cited ongoing court cases when she said she would not ask the legislature to redraw maps immediately.

On Thursday, she said she remains “hopeful that Alabama receives a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court.”

In 2023, the Supreme Court decided in Allen v. Milligan that Alabama’s new, legislature-drawn map violated the Voting Rights Act. That decision led to Alabama’s current map, which sent two Black officials from the state to Congress for the first time.

Alabama tried again to challenge the maps, the case currently pending before the Supreme Court.

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In 2025, a three-judge panel ruled Alabama can’t use its maps that were struck down and ordered that the state use new maps until new districts are drawn based on the 2030 census.

For the past day, Alabama Republicans have tried to figure out how to speed up the process.

“I think they should move on this as fast as they possibly can,” said Terry Lathan, former chair of the state GOP.

 

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