A federal judge ordered Alabama to redraw its congressional map around race – and the state had no choice but to comply.
Now Alabama's AG is going back to the Supreme Court to make sure that never happens to any state again.
Steve Marshall just filed the petition that could permanently end the legal weapon Democrats have used to manufacture minority districts for forty years.
The Court-Forced Gerrymander Democrats Don't Want You to Know About
Here's what Democrats never tell you about Alabama's redistricting fight.
In 2023, a three-judge federal panel told Alabama it had to create a second "majority-minority" district – a gerrymandered seat engineered specifically so Democrats could win it.
The legislature drew their own map. The court threw it out.
A special master – an unelected bureaucrat – drew the map instead.
That map handed Democrat Shomari Figures a congressional seat in 2024 in a state where Republicans win by landslides.
Now, on April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court changed everything.
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Court ruled 6-3 that race cannot be the predominant factor in drawing congressional districts – directly undermining the legal theory used to force Alabama's hand in the first place.
Marshall told Fox News Digital he was "thrilled" to see where the Court came down.
"Drawing maps based on historical redistricting principles," Marshall said, are "constitutional exercises of that authority."
Justice Thomas Has Until May 14 to Flip Alabama's Map
The timing makes this urgent in a way Democrats are praying you don't notice.
Alabama's May 19 primary is weeks away.
Marshall has asked the Supreme Court – specifically Justice Clarence Thomas, who oversees emergency appeals from the 11th Circuit – to lift the injunction blocking the legislature's preferred map before that primary.
Responses are due May 14.
If SCOTUS acts, Alabama's primary gets restructured under Republican-drawn districts.
That means Shomari Figures' court-manufactured seat could vanish before November – and Alabama returns to six Republicans and one Democrat instead of five Republicans and two Democrats.
The state legislature already passed legislation giving Gov. Kay Ivey authority to schedule new primary elections if the courts give the green light.
This is not hypothetical. The machinery is in place and waiting for one ruling from Washington.
Cory Booker Flew to Alabama to Lecture Them About Fairness
Republicans think they could gain up to 14 House seats nationally through redistricting across nine states that have already acted since Trump pushed Texas to redraw its maps last summer.
Alabama is one domino in a national cascade.
Virginia's Supreme Court just struck down a Democratic gerrymander that could have given Democrats four House seats.
Tennessee carved up the one Democratic-held, Black-majority district in Memphis.
Louisiana and South Carolina are redrawing maps simultaneously.
The post-Callais landscape is a Republican redistricting wave – and Democrats have almost no legal ammunition left to stop it because the Supreme Court's ruling made the old Voting Rights Act challenge framework obsolete.
Into this fight flew New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who descended on Birmingham to grandstand against the redistricting push alongside Mayor Randall Woodfin and failed gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones.
Marshall's response was simple: clean up your own backyard first.
"They're arguing for proportional representation," Marshall said, pointing out that Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – states with substantial Republican voter blocs – have sent zero Republicans to Congress for years.
Not one.
Democrats screaming about Alabama want race-based districts in the South while cheering the erasure of Republican voices across all of New England.
That's the hypocrisy your mainstream media buries on page 12.
Marshall filed. Thomas has the motion. May 14 is the deadline.
If the Court acts, Democrats lose a seat they never should have had – and Republicans take one more step toward holding the House in November.
Sources:
- Charles Creitz, "Alabama AG Makes Supreme Court Play That Could Deal Decisive Blow in Redistricting War," Fox News, May 11, 2026.
- Amy Howe, "In Major Voting Rights Act Case, Supreme Court Strikes Down Redistricting Map Challenged as Racially Discriminatory," SCOTUSblog, April 29, 2026.
- Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U.S. ___ (2026), Supreme Court of the United States, April 29, 2026.
- "Alabama Takes Step Toward a New Congressional Map While Awaiting Court Action," AP via NBC News, May 9, 2026.
