JUST IN: Third Red State Signals Redistricting Plans Following Bombshell SCOTUS Ruling

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting expedited review of the state’s ongoing congressional redistricting litigation. The filing occurred one day after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which determined that Louisiana’s congressional map constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander due to the creation of a second majority-black district. “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 wrote. “It is my hope that our right as Alabamians t