A three-judge district court has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Alabama from using a Republican-favored congressional district map in a special primary election scheduled for Aug. 11. The ruling disrupts the plan approved by the Legislature to use a map state lawmakers approved back in 2023 that would give Republicans a chance to reclaim the District 2 seat they lost two years ago.

Alabama is likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would redraw one majority-Black district.

Alabama officials are sharply divided after a federal court blocked the state’s new congressional map and ordered a court-drawn plan. What we know.