Mo Brooks Calls on Gov. Ivey to Redistrict All Alabama Congressional Districts

From Mo Brooks, candidate for AL House District 20

April 29

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana v. Callais held that race may not be taken into account in redistricting.  Race cannot be used to discriminate against minorities.  Nor may race be used to promote minorities to the detriment of other races.

The control of the U.S. House of Representatives is at stake.  The future of America and the remainder of President Trump’s term will be determined, in part, by how Alabama and other states react to the Supreme Court’s decision.

Since the 1980s, the Alabama legislature (often forced by federal court orders) used race as the primary factor in redistricting the Alabama legislature and Congressional house seats.

Per today’s Supreme Court decision, Alabama’s use of racial gerrymandering is, at a minimum, highly suspect and, at worst, absolutely forbidden.

With the future of America and Alabama at stake, I hereby formally request that Governor Kay Ivey immediately call a special session of the legislature to repeal all vestiges of racially-motivated gerrymandering of Congressional and legislative districts.

In addition, I call on the legislature to, in that special session, remove all racial information from the demographical database used to redraw Congressional and legislative districts and to redistrict accordingly.

If there is no racial information in the demographic database used to redraw districts, then there is no valid claim that racial discrimination motivated redrawn districts.

The not one but two seats Republicans would gain in the U.S. House of Representatives may be critical to America’s future.

Alabama must not help America go down a bad path by failing to act when the time is right and America’s future depends on it.

So, Governor Ivey, get to it!   America’s future is at stake.  Please rise to the occasion.

Mo Brooks

Mo Brooks is an attorney and Republican politician who is currently running for Alabama House District 20. He previously represented Alabama’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2011 to 2023. He also has previously served in the Alabama House of Representatives and on the Madison County Commission, building a long record of public service in North Alabama. A graduate of Duke University and the University of Alabama School of Law, Brooks also worked as a prosecutor and in private legal practice.

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