A bill pre-filed this week in the Alabama Legislature would allow for special primary elections should the U.S. Supreme Court change how race is applied to drawing congressional maps.

Senate Bill 23 by Senate President Pro Tem Garlan Gudger, R-Cullman, allows for primary elections outside the normal May contests if “the boundaries of one or more legislative or congressional districts to be used in the next general election are changed or altered by either an act of the Legislature or by order, judgment, or mandate from a state or federal court which permits or requires the use of legislative or congressional district boundaries…”

The bill says a special primary would be required if the boundary change is made too late to be accommodated in the normal primary election schedule. It would

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