Emergency application
Black voting districts
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State Appellants v. Bobby Singleton
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 ask the Court to pause a federal district court order while they appeal. They say the orders wrongly found a voting-rights violation and relied on race when assessing Alabama's district maps.
What the Court did
The application closed without a ruling on the requested pause; Justice Thomas's order said it was denied as moot (no longer a live dispute). The Court did not decide the underlying dispute or publish how the justices voted.
What it means
The requested pause would have been temporary; closing the application does not decide who wins the underlying voting-district dispute. The request concerned an appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama; the record gives no further lower-court steps. No related Supreme Court case or argument is listed.
Sources
Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A1230. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.