As redistricting legal battles continue to play out across Alabama’s local, state and federal levels, a final ruling has been issued to settle the question of which remedial map would be imposed on state legislative district lines – now less than 200 days until the 2026 primary elections.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco ordered Alabama to use Remedial Plan 3, drawn by a federal special master in lieu of lawmakers convening to propose their own map, for State Senate elections.

Among the three options proposed earlier this month, Plan 3 is well-established as the option that makes the fewest changes to the Legislature’s 2021 lines while curing the Montgomery-area defect the court previously found.

Plaintiffs in the case, namely the NAACP, pushed for a far broader statewide red

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