Alabama, Tennessee Move to Review Congressional Maps After Supreme Court Ruling

The two state’s governors have called lawmakers into special legislative sessions beginning next week.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, after both houses of the legislature passed the bill, in Montgomery, Alabama in a file photograph. Office of the Governor State of Alabama/Handout via Reuters

Alabama and Tennessee governors, on May 1, called to convene special sessions for lawmakers to review congressional maps after a landmark Supreme Court ruling that limits a section of the Voting Rights Act.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said she has called a special legislative session starting May 4 to address legislation to provide for “a special primary election for electing members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Alabama State Senate in districts whose boundary lines are altered by court action.”