Emergency application
Race in voting maps
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State v. Marcus Caster
What did the Court do?
The Court dismissed the request as moot (no longer a live dispute) on May 11, 2026.
Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.
What's being asked
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen and other state officials asked the Supreme Court to temporarily pause lower-court injunctions affecting Alabama's election district maps. Their filing challenges district-court injunctions and argues that race and voting patterns were wrongly used to judge whether the maps comply with voting-rights and equal-protection rules.
What the Court did
The application closed without a ruling on the requested temporary pause. Justice Thomas denied it as moot (no longer a live dispute). The Court did not publish how the justices voted.
What it means
The closing did not decide who should win the map dispute. The docket lists no related Supreme Court case on the main legal questions or argument date, and gives no details about further proceedings in the Eleventh Circuit.
Sources
Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A1229. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.