During Friday's episode of WVNN's "The Dale Jackson Show," State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) was asked when Alabama will join the national redistricting fight and remove U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) and Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) from their seats.
The move, according to Orr, could come after an ongoing legal action outside of Alabama is settled.
"We would enter the fight after the decision in the Callais case that's currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court," Orr told host Dale Jackson.
"And if that decision is clear and goes in the way we hope it will go, which is they take the race situation out of the mix and just let politics be politics, and let the political elected legislatures or whomever, draw the lines however they want to and quit all the race-based redistric

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