Alabama Joins Brief Supporting Texas in Redistricting Case Before U.S. Supreme Court

Alabama Joins Brief Supporting Texas in Redistricting Case Before U.S. Supreme Court

(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General joined Missouri and 20 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a federal district court ruling that preliminarily enjoined use of Texas’s congressional map and ordered the state to use a map that would likely reassign multiple seats to the plaintiffs’ preferred political party. The state coalition argues that the lower court ignored controlling Supreme Court precedent and inserted the federal judiciary into a political process reserved for elected state legislatures.

Last year, the Supreme Court held in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP that plaintiffs alleging racial gerrymandering must provide an alternative map demonstr