A panel of federal judges has made a final decision on which of the three proposed maps Alabama will have to use in its upcoming 2024 congressional district races.
The judges selected remedial plan No. 3 in the Milligan v. Allen case. The court heard final arguments on the three maps proposed by a special master on Monday and selected map plan No. 3 because it was preferred by a majority of the parties at the hearing.
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen reacted to the ruling in a statement saying his office “will facilitate the 2024 election cycle in accordance with the map the federal court has forced upon Alabama and ordered us to use.” The secretary of state said he would “keep our state’s elections safe, secure and transparent because that is what I was elected to do.”
“Last year, Alabama held federal elections with a gerrymandered map that diluted the voting power of, and denied equal representation to, the state’s Black residents in violation of the Voting Rights Act. One year from now, those same Black voters in Alabama, who comprise more than a quarter of the state’s population, will finally have the opportunity to elect the candidate of their choice across two congressional districts. That is progress,” Jenkins stated.
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