The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama issued a preliminary injunction preventing the State of Alabama from using congressional districts the court held to violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Those districts, which the Alabama Legislature enacted in 2023, had been held unlawful in 2025, but the Supreme Court vacated that decision and remanded it to the district court with instructions to reconsider it in light of its recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which changed the standards for proving a claim under Section 2. After taking testimony from Alabama’s elections director and reconsidering the evidence in the case, the district court reaffirmed its earlier decision. Whatley Kallas attorneys Joe Whatley, Tucker Brown, and Henry Quillen represent one of the three sets of plaintiffs who challenged the congressional districts, including two Alabama state senators.
