Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn a key provision in the Voting Rights Act that allows states to use racial gerrymandering when they draw their voting districts.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Louisiana v. Callais case Wednesday, a blockbuster case that could reset the rules for drawing political maps, directly affecting Alabama’s ongoing and future redistricting battles.

Marshall, who is also a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2026, discussed the case recently on FM Talk 106.5’s “The Jeff Poor Show.”

“Yeah, very encouraged,” Marshall said about the case. “I mean, number one, the fact that the court relisted the case to specifically address a question that we think is fundamentally important here in Alabama, and that is the ability of courts to order very specific districts that are minority majority districts, and whether or not that’s compliant with the Constitution.”

Marshall said there might be some “buyer’s remorse” from some of the conservative justices on the court after they ruled in a similar case against the state of Alabama, a case that led to a court-appointed special master redrawing the district maps in 2023.

“We were very encouraged to see that Justice Kavanaugh remains kind of committed to this idea of, is there not a point in time in which there needs to be a time limit around race based remedial efforts,” Marshall explained. “And when you look at the victories that occurred in the college admission cases about rejecting race based preferences. You know, we think that same argument remains analogous to what’s going on in the redistricting context…And so we think things are moving in a very positive way.”

Marshall emphasized the effect this ruling with have on the state of Alabama.

“I will not be surprised at all based on what they ultimately do with Louisiana case, if our case is not sent back down for further consideration in light of what they decide to do,” he said. “But I think if you read what both commentators in this space have written and then lawyers that are following the court, everybody seems to be very encouraged. If you’re in the position of Alabama, about the direction it seems to be going.”

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee