‘Not the DNC’: Tuberville calls on state leaders to draw new congressional maps that ‘accurately reflect the values of Alabamians’

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April 30, 2026

Tuberville Alabama redistricting — (Senator Tommy Tuberville/Facebook, Alabama Secretary of State, YHN)

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville wants Alabama Republicans off the sidelines and into the redistricting fight – now, not later.

Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 decision Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais dismantling the legal scaffolding behind court-ordered majority-minority districts, Tuberville reacted: “LET’S GO!”

The frontrunner to become Governor of Alabama in 2027 laid the case out in an op-ed published Thursday in Fox News, urging the Alabama Attorney General and Secretary of State’s offices to file a motion to vacate a federal district court injunction that locks Alabama’s current congressional map in place through 2030.

“Alabama must take action to make sure our maps accurately reflect the politics and values of Alabamians and not the DNC,” Sen. Tuberville (R-Auburn) said in a statement to Yellowhammer News on Thursday afternoon.

Alabama currently sends five Republicans and two Democrats, U.S. Reps. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) and Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham), to the U.S. House under a 2023 court-imposed map from Allen v. Milligan, which forced Alabama to redraw its lines around race to manufacture a second Democrat-favoring district.

Hours after Wednesday’s ruling, Florida lawmakers approved a new congressional map aimed at creating four more GOP-leaning districts. Virginia Democrats rammed through new lines weeks ago threatening four of the Old Dominion’s five Republican-held seats.

Texas Republicans passed a map last year creating five new winnable GOP seats, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a counter-map designed to slash five Republican-held seats in his own state. But it was New York that set a template years ago, effectively drawing four GOP seats out of existence, which was later overturned.

In his op-ed, Tuberville says the U.S. Supreme Court got it right this time, and that Alabama officials, should act.

“Republicans didn’t start this decade’s redistricting fight,” Tuberville wrote. “But we should finish it.”

“Our own state of Alabama — which voted for Trump by 65% in 2024 — by all rights should send an entire Republican delegation to Washington. In a country where only 20 House seats are truly competitive, two more Republicans from Alabama could mean the difference between gridlock and advancing Trump’s agenda.”