Callais fallout in Alabama: No redistricting now, says Ivey; partisan divides over SCOTUS ruling

By: Andrea Tinker

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: April 29, 2026

Words: 1,240

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling significantly limiting majority-minority districts should not have an immediate effect on Alabama’s legislative and congressional districts. But that could change in the future.

In a 6-3 decision, in a case called Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Samuel Alito held that a Louisiana congressional map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and ruled that plaintiffs challenging legislative maps for racial discrimination under Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act had to show …

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