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Alabama and Tennessee set special sessions to consider new congressional maps

1 May 2026 at 19:09
The Republican governors of Alabama and Tennessee on Friday called for their state legislators to convene for special sessions to consider new congressional maps after a major Supreme Court decision on race and redistricting this week

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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey called state lawmakers into a special session following the Supreme Court's redistricting ruling this week.

Alabama governor calls special session to move primaries for redistricting, while Georgia passes

1 May 2026 at 19:09
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey called legislators into a special session Friday and asked them to reschedule the state's midterm primaries, in hopes that pushing those elections back will give them time to re-install congressional maps that had been blocked in court before a landmark Supreme Court ruling changed the landscape around race and redistricting this week

© Brynn Anderson

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey in 2023, in Troy, Ala.
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