We’re in a redistricting war, and President Trump needs reinforcements.
Democrats are gerrymandering at unprecedented levels to eliminate Republican districts. One of Alabama’s own Congressional Representatives, Democrat Terri Sewell, openly called for California and Illinois to send zero Republicans to Congress. If you have any doubt whether our opponents are redistricting in bad faith, look at Virginia’s map that will turn a 55-45 state into a Democrat stronghold.
Deep red states like Florida and Texas have already responded to the President’s call to counteract Democrat efforts to turn purple states into the new blue wall. They understand that we have to fight back to avoid generational defeat.
Alabama must join the fight. It will take leadership, urgency, and know-how, but we have to act now to draw a race-neutral congressional map that will send seven conservative Alabama leaders to the House of Representatives.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais changes the landscape, and it is essential that our leaders seize the moment.
Conservative MAGA warriors from South Carolina and Louisiana did what the Alabama Attorney General’s office did not: make the right arguments.
In the Supreme Court’s majority opinion, Justice Alito specifically highlighted the failures of the Alabama Attorney General’s office in our redistricting case three years ago. “Because” Alabama “did not cite partisan goals in defending its map,” Alito wrote, the Supreme Court did not have the opportunity to rule in favor of race-neutral redistricting then.
Simply put: if the Alabama Attorney General’s Office had done its job three years ago, we never would have had a second Democrat district in the first place.
At any moment, the Supreme Court could lift the federal court injunction that currently prevents Alabama from redistricting, and we must get it right this time.
Under Callais, Alabama’s current map is unconstitutionally racist. Plain and simple. The only reason Alabama has two Democrat districts is because a federal court intentionally drew them that way to group Alabama voters by race. As soon as the injunction is lifted, the State must move immediately to redraw the maps for this election. We need to update our State election timeline and hold a special session to right this wrong immediately.
Liberals and RINOs will say the timing isn’t right. But those voices stayed silent when the State—by executive decree—postponed elections during COVID. The Attorney General authorized rescheduling those elections on a compressed timeline in 2020, and there’s no reason we should not do so now.
President Trump needs us now—not in 2030. Our Democrat-gerrymandered map cannot stand for another cycle. Alabama’s two Democrat seats could be the difference between continued conservative victories and obstructive lawfare against President Trump.
I’m not alone in calling for immediate action. Coach Tuberville, our next governor, has asked our State government to do what is needed to implement a fair map before the 2026 election. I stand with him now, just as I will as Attorney General.
The era of DEI districting is over. It’s time for Alabama to go on offense for our people, our principles, and our way of life.
Jay Mitchell is a nationally recognized litigator and former Alabama Supreme Court Justice. He is currently running to be the next Alabama Attorney General.
