Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is taking the redistricting war straight to the Supreme Court — and if he wins, the left's favorite trick for carving up Republican maps could be dead for good.
About time somebody fought back.
Marshall filed a motion asking the Supreme Court to lift an injunction against Alabama's redistricting maps — both congressional and state Senate — arguing that the Court's own ruling in Louisiana v. Callais already knocked the legal legs out from under the challenge. As Marshall put it, Alabama now has "a framework for Alabama to directly defend what the legislature did both in 2021 and 2023."
Here's the background. Alabama drew its maps. The left sued under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, demanding a second Democratic-favored congressional district. The case, Allen v. Milligan, resulted in the maps getting struck down — including something called the Livingston map in 2023. Alabama was forced to redraw.
But then came the Callais ruling out of Louisiana at the end of April 2026. And that decision changed everything.
Marshall told Fox News he was "thrilled" by the Callais outcome because it validated what Alabama had been doing all along — "drawing maps based on historical redistricting principles that now I think Callais makes clear were constitutional exercises of that authority."
Translation: the Supreme Court just told the left that you can't force states to gerrymander districts based on race and call it civil rights.
Marshall's filing is direct. "Because the lower court's injunction cannot stand in light of the Supreme Court's ruling, we have asked the court to lift the injunction." No hedging. No maybe. Lift it.
The timing matters too. Alabama's primary election is May 19, 2026 — just days away. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is involved. And the implications stretch way beyond Alabama's borders. If the Supreme Court agrees with Marshall, every progressive legal challenge to Republican-drawn maps built on the same Section 2 theory gets a lot harder to win.
Marshall also made a point that should embarrass every Democrat screaming about "fair maps." He pointed to states like Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire — "where you don't see a single congressional member there from the Republican Party." Funny how the left never sues over those maps.
The Supreme Court of Virginia already made a similar redistricting decision. The dominoes are falling. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones, Senator Cory Booker, and Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin can howl about it all they want. The legal ground is shifting under their feet.
Even retiring Senator Tommy Tuberville's seat and Secretary of State Wes Allen's office are part of this story — Alabama is a ruby-red state, and its elected officials are done pretending the Voting Rights Act requires them to draw maps that hand Democrats seats they can't win at the ballot box.
For decades, the left used the courts to do what voters wouldn't — redraw maps until Democrats got the outcomes they wanted. They dressed it up in the language of the 1960s civil rights movement, pretending that the 2020s require the same remedies as Jim Crow.
Steve Marshall just called their bluff. And the Supreme Court might be ready to back him up.
One case. One ruling. And the left's redistricting racket could be finished.