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Alabama Draws New Maps. The Courts Will Have the Final Word.

Alabama's legislature convened a special session this week to redraw the state's congressional maps, passing Senate Bill 1 and House Bill 1 after protests broke out in the gallery — loud enough that lawmakers called a recess because, as floor members said, they could not hear over the crowd.

Activist Dee Reed, Alabama State Organizing Manager for Black Voters Matter, was walked out of the gallery by state troopers, though she was not arrested. Said state Rep. Barbara Drummond (D-District 103): "Those are individuals who were standing for democracy. This is their house and that is what we see."

The bills are contingent on the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts permitting Alabama to proceed with the changes. The Founders gave Congress — and the states they empower — the authority to draw these lines. But that authority has always carried a duty to serve the republic, not the party. The courts will hold the line or they will not. That is the constitutional order doing its work.

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Redrawing the Map Mid-Term Is How Republics Lose Their Footing

South Carolina Republicans moved in May 2026 to extend their legislative session for the sole purpose of redrawing the state's congressional map — a maneuver reported by The Hill as occurring under pressure from President Trump, with Rep. Jim Clyburn, the state's lone House Democrat, as the clear target.

Said Clyburn: "Republicans in the South Carolina state legislature began the process of extending their session to allow for the redrawing of the state's congressional map. We cannot let them succeed."

The Founders did not design the constitutional order so that the party in power could engineer its own permanence between census cycles. Redrawing lines to erase a sitting member's seat — whatever one thinks of that member — is the kind of move that corrodes the republic's foundation long after the immediate victor is forgotten. The oath is to the Constitution, not to the map that best serves the party holding the pen.