Alabama GOP Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Congressional Map

Control for the U.S. House could come down to just a handful of seats.

So, Alabama being able to shift even one seat to Republicans is a big deal.

The filing came just one day after a three-judge federal panel ruled Alabama could not move forward with the map and instead must continue using a court-ordered district configuration that helped Democrats gain an additional congressional seat.

The latest legal battle has quickly become one of the biggest tests yet of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly narrowed the use of race in congressional redistricting and triggered a wave of Republican-led map redraws across the South.