Alabama Governor Calls Special Session to Redraw Congressional Maps

newsMay 1, 202620555

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey called a special legislative session in Montgomery to redraw the state's U.S. House districts and move the midterm primaries to allow time for redistricting. Republican lawmakers aim to restore congressional maps that federal courts previously blocked for disadvantaging Black voters, and Democratic leaders called the session costly and an attempt to entrench Republican seats. The action follows a Supreme Court ruling narrowing race-based redistricting limits and mirrors GOP efforts in South Carolina and Tennessee to reshape majority-Black districts, a change that could weaken Black voting power and influence which party controls the U.S. House in 2026.

Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

Tennessee is going into a special session next week, with the GOP planning to eliminate the majority-Black district anchored on Memphis. wpln.org/post/tenness...

19345d ago

Taniel45

From Bolts just months ago, we anchored our big story on the VRA in West Tennessee: boltsmag.org/voting-right...

Colin Jacobson16

White Southerners getting to discriminate against Blacks is basically better than Christmas for them. 😑

demadalcielo.bsky.social8

So many white evil people in the South. This is just sad.

Susanorand6

Sinful. The republicans know the people are against their policies and the only way to win is to cheat

boatmatears.bsky.social5

NJ is considering redistricting as well as all of the other Blue states. It’s a race to the bottom.

Eric D Mayhew5

Might there be any strategic downside to this from a purely tactical angle like could it potentially dilute districts that are currently solidly red so they are plausibly flippable?

iamkris10.bsky.social3

Disgusting. That theyre moving so fast is repugnant on top

Ernest Defarge3

Not wasting any time to lock in Jim Crow

Brian Lyman

@brianlyman.bsky.social

BREAKING: Gov. Kay Ivey has called a special session of the Alabama Legislature for Monday to change the May 19 primary should the U.S. Supreme Court lift an injunction against Alabama redistricting before 2030.

Maiola, Gina

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Governor Kay Ivey on Friday issued the following statement:
“Following the successful 2020 census, Alabama maintained our representation in Congress, and I called a special session to redraw our maps. Since then, we have been battling federal courts and activist groups who think they know Alabama better than Alabama.“Earlier this week, however, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a positive decision in the Louisiana v. Callais case, which I said was encouraging for our own pending litigation. I also acknowledged that Alabama’s redistricting battle is not over. The state remains under a court order prohibiting the use of new congressional maps until after the 2030 census.
“While we were not yet in position to call a special session earlier this week, I said we needed to keep up our fight in the courts. Immediately, Attorney General Steve Marshall filed emergency motions at the U.S. Supreme Court regarding Alabama’s redistricting case. As I said following the emergency motions being filed, I remain hopeful Alabama will receive a favorable outcome from the U.S. Supreme Court, which is why I am now calling a special session of the Alabama Legislature.
“By calling the Legislature into a special session, I am ensuring Alabama is prepared should the courts act quickly enough to allow Alabama’s previously drawn congressional and state senate maps to be used during this election cycle. If the court-ordered injunction is lifted, Alabama would revert to the maps drawn by the Legislature for congressional districts in 2023 and state senate districts in 2021.
“During this special session, I have called on the Legislature to address legislation to provide for a special primary election for electing members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Alabama State Senate in districts whose boundary lines are altered by court action.
“I expect the Legislature to address this call in fast order and be completed within five days.

7945d ago

Brian Lyman18

As of this writing, the U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled on Alabama's request to lift the injunction. This is an about-face for Ivey, who said on Wednesday she did not anticipate calling a special session.

River Blackearth5

White people are sure the fuck going to white people when it comes to making sure no one else can ever have a damn thing.

luce-veritas.bsky.social4

This just shows, once again, that these Republican criminals couldn’t win an election fairly even if their lives depended on it.

Donna Stern

@dvsmemphis.bsky.social

Breaking: Gov. Bill Lee has requested a Special Session of the Tennessee to redraw the Tennessee Congressional Maps. #sheshed

5645d ago

demosthenes1959.bsky.social12

It’s ironic that the southern states all are rapidly ending black congressional representation, isn’t it? It’s almost as if the 6 right wingers gutting the Voting Rights Act knew that this is exactly what they want.

audiogirl50.bsky.social5

I’m not a lawyer but hoping this can be tied up in court and we get midterms done. This is so against the constitution.

Nona Yerbiznatch4

Now we have to sue them for racially gerrymandering to give white people an edge.

Dan2

I honestly can’t feel shocked. Their complaint lack of any focus on their own has led directly to this juncture. Maybe this is the wake-up they need. But I doubt it.

mouthyserf.bsky.social2

Soft civil war. Fuck the confederacy.

Mercurywoodrose (Antifa Science Officer, Division 23 Airborne)2

That means for four generations these racist clan motherfuckers have been telling their kids that one day the south will rise again and the moment the Supreme Court throws out the civil rights act and the voting rights act you need to jump in there right away.

Robin Marty

@robinmarty.com

Under-emphasized in the redistricting fight is that when Alabama got its second Black (&hence second Democratic) congressional district, no one GAVE Black voters a majority. In fact, there were still more eligible white voters. It just gave them a winnable one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

4247d ago

Daniel Gilmore

@gilmored85.bsky.social

Two days ago there was a new article that Kay Ivey wasnt going to call a special session for new maps so I'm guessing between Wednesday and today she got bullied into a last ditch effort at a (further) gerrymander.

3645d ago

Daniel Gilmore15

Gotta imagine that her initially being against this before flipflopping is gonna feature prominently in the lawsuit that gets filed over this move alabamareflector.com/2026/04/29/c...

Ian Carrillo

@iansociologo.bsky.social

The ink is barely dry on the Supreme Court ruling, and politicians in Alabama, Tennesse, and Louisiana have already called to initiate redistricting.

3347d ago

NBC News

@nbcnews.com

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey asked legislators to reschedule the state's midterm primaries, in hopes that pushing those elections back will give them time to re-install congressional maps that had been previously blocked in court.

2845d ago

Cousin Herb6

GOP Policy: If it ain’t broke, rig it until it is, then blame Dems.

David Baker2

Once they redistrict, Democrats should register as Republicans and vote for liberal Republicans in the primary.

Hey cHAmpa2

Republicans are evil. Disenfranchising people of color, silencing voices. They have to break the rules to stay in power.

Alabama Reflector

@alabamareflector.com

Our coverage of the Callais ruling. From @andreadotweb.bsky.social: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Wednesday ruled out a redistricting session for now as several Republicans called for one and Democrats denounced the decision as an assault on fair representation. (1/4)

1547d ago

Pat Duggins

@dugginsnews.bsky.social

To keep the conversation going…Alabama Governor Kay Ivey calls a special session to change the state’s Congressional voting map. Alabama Public Radio’s national award-winning investigation called “…a US house seat, if you can keep it” focuses on the issues. www.apr.org/news/2024-10...

1045d ago

r/protectUSelections

@protectuselections.bsky.social

Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Fast-track Redistricting Fight After Louisiana v. Callais Ruling

746d ago

Andrew Levesque

@andrewlevesque.bsky.social

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... Several of South Carolina’s maga leaders and lawmakers are pushing Gov Henry McMaster to call a special session to eliminate the state’s only minority congressional district....

745d ago

jen rice

@jenrice.bsky.social

This week: Virginia Supreme Court heard a case that could nullify the redistricting election, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Florida passed a gerrymander despite its gerrymandering ban, Louisiana & Alabama are now redrawing maps for elections that ALREADY STARTED

945d ago

ᕼᗴᗪᗩ 🩵 🐶 🇺🇦✌️

@hedahunter.bsky.social

Why aren’t Democratic Governors announcing special sessions to steal whatever they can from Republicans?

545d ago

TN House Democrats

@tndemocrats.bsky.social

Weak. Spineless. Shameful. Immoral. We wish we could say we’re surprised, but Gov Bill Lee has spent 8 years scamming Tennesseans and using special sessions as a way to avoid the democratic process. His final act as Governor? Rigging an election because the DC elite told him to.

545d ago

Advocacy Arena with Dee

@desia.bsky.social

Gov. Bill Lee has called a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House map as the party tries to eliminate the only Democratic-held seat in Memphis. wants state lawmakers to return to the state Capitol on May 5 to pass a new U.S. congressional district map tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/01/g...

445d ago

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Alabama Governor Calls Special Session to Redraw Congressional Maps

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