Alabama: GOP redistricting suit awaits court action
AP reports: A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the current district boundaries for the Alabama Legislature awaits a ruling by a three-judge federal panel on whether it can continue.
Democrats claim it's a Republican attempt to pick up where the last redistricting suit left off. It's unclear when the three-judge panel will rule. A hearing date has not been set. ...
But Barron, Sanders and another intervenor, House Speaker Seth Hammett, D-Andalusia, point to close relationships of Republicans involved in the suit, particularly Montiel, who has brought numerous redistricting lawsuits on his own.
Minutes of the Republican Party Executive and Steering Committee show that on at least four occasions in 2004 and 2005, GOP vice chairman Jerry Lathan made formal presentations about the lawsuit.
In speeches, he presented this suit as the "central aspect" of the party's official strategy to take over the state Legislature, Montgomery attorney Shannon L. Holliday wrote in a court filing last month. -- Welcome to TimesDaily.com
Disclosure: I represent, along with James Blacksher, Speaker Hammett in this suit.