BREAKING: Three-judge district court reaffirms earlier rulings that Alabama's 2023 congressional map cannot be used

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2. So, if the AL legislature can get something together and passed legally in time for the Aug 11 primary, they coul

Legal eagles -- this seems to read to me like if the AL legislature gets up and says we are coming up with these new maps for 2026 based on purely political motives and not racial ones and somehow gets it through the process early enough to hold the new primaries on August 11, that would be OK.

Otherwise, we will use the district maps they used in 2024. The legislature can then write new maps for 2028 but the next congress would still have the current majority minority districts. Since they are outside of their normal legislative calendar (jan 13-April 9), that would require some sort of special session during campaign season. And they would only have 12 legislative days to get it done (30 calendar days) with three separate readings on separate legislative days.

Hard to believe it -- but this group appeared to do the right thing.

More of a reprieve than a pardon. But one more fair election would be a good thing.