Governor Kay Ivey Calls Special Session to Redraw Alabama Maps – Delivering a COMPLETELY REPUBLICAN Congressional Delegation

It is now official.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has called a special session of the Alabama Legislature for Monday, May 4, ordering lawmakers back to Montgomery to redraw the state’s congressional maps after the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring race-based gerrymandering unconstitutional.

In a formal proclamation issued Friday, Ivey stated the Legislature would consider “primary elections” legislation and redraw districts whose boundaries were altered by prior court rulings, injunctions, or judicial orders.

That means Alabama Republicans are moving swiftly to reclaim control of congressional lines that had been reshaped through years of legal warfare and activist court intervention.

For years, Alabama has been at the center of a bitter redistricting battle after left-wing groups sued to force the state into creating a second Black-opportunity congressional district. Federal courts repeatedly interfered with maps passed by elected lawmakers, overriding the will of Alabama voters.

But the legal landscape changed dramatically this week after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the use of race as the predominant factor in redistricting, dealing a massive blow to the race-based mapmaking agenda pushed by Democrats and activist groups.

Regarding our own pending redistricting litigation, 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. #alpolitics pic.twitter.com/yQY6qdQjSq

— Governor Kay Ivey (@GovernorKayIvey) May 1, 2026

AOL reported:

In light of the decision, Attorney General Marshall filed motions in three redistricting cases that currently block Alabama from using its 2023 drawn congressional map.

“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,” Ivey wrote in a statement alongside the announcement of the session.

In 2022, a federal three-judge panel concluded Alabama’s congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered the state to create a second majority-Black district. The following year the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in a 5-4 ruling, but Alabama lawmakers then drew new lines that the three-judge panel rejected on the basis that it failed to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority.

As a result, the federal panel selected a new map that altered the bounds of Alabama’s District 2, which increased its Black voting-age population to nearly 50%.

If the court-ordered injunction is lifted, then Alabama would revert to the congressional map drawn by Alabama lawmakers in 2023.