Federal Court Bars Alabama From Changing Redistricting Map Until 2030
By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
August 10, 2025
MONTGOMERY Ala. On Thursday, a federal court barred Alabama from redrawing its current, court-ordered congressional map again until 2030.
United States Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus, United States District Judge Anna Manasco, and United States District Judge Terry Moorer ruled the 2023 plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
However. Alabama Attorney Steve Marshall plans to appeal the decision.
The State of Alabama is still defending its congressional map, which legislators approved in 2023. A special master hired by a three-judge panel in Birmingham redrew the map for the 2024 congressional elections after Democrats and liberal groups were successful in their initial legal challenge. The issue is still being litigated. The new map resulted in Democrats picking up one seat in Alabama.
A three-judge federal panel ruling in May found the congressional redistricting map passed by Alabama Republican lawmakers in 2023 violated the Voting Rights Act.
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