Steve Marshall
Steve Marshall is the Attorney General of Alabama, appointed in 2017 and subsequently elected. All of his entries fall in 2026 and concern the defence and drawing of electoral districts and the administration of elections.
2026 Events (3)
Supreme Court lets Alabama use GOP-drawn map eliminating a majority-Black district
On June 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Alabama's emergency request to use its Republican-drawn congressional map for the November 2026 midterms, a map with a majority-Black population in only one of the state's seven districts. The unsigned emergency-docket order, decided 6-3 along ideological lines, overrode a three-judge federal panel that had found the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and displaced the court-drawn districts used in 2024. The three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Sotomayor warning that the decision "disregards both democratic values and the rule of law."
Federal panel blocks Alabama's GOP congressional map as intentional racial discrimination
On May 26, 2026, a three-judge federal panel issued a preliminary injunction blocking Alabama from using its new Republican-drawn congressional map in the November 2026 midterms, finding the lines "intentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the Constitution." The map, enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision that the state read as loosening race-conscious districting requirements, would have eliminated one of Alabama's two majority-Black districts and positioned the GOP to gain a U.S. House seat. The same panel previously found in 2023 that Alabama's map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters; Attorney General Steve Marshall said the state would immediately appeal to the Supreme Court.
Alabama AG Marshall subpoenaed Southern Poverty Law Center's donor and hate-group records in civil probe
On May 11, 2026, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall opened a civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center and issued a civil investigative subpoena demanding the group's donor records, its disbursements to informants, and payment records tied to organizations in its "extremist files" and "hate map," with documents due June 1. Marshall invoked Alabama's Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the group's pending federal fraud indictment, saying the office had "always suspected that they were monetizing hate." The subpoena's reach into records connected to SPLC's hate-group designations extended state investigative power into the watchdog's advocacy work.