On Thursday, Shomari Figures told a Montgomery town hall the Supreme Court would not lift the injunction on Alabama's congressional map before 2030. Four days later, the Supreme Court lifted it. Six-three. District 2 is now a 39.9% BVAP, R+17 district. The Congressman who said the case was settled has 175 days to introduce himself to a district he has never represented.
A federal court ruled the 2023 Legislature-drawn map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and ordered a redrawn District 2 with a 48.7% Black Voting Age Population. The voters inside that court-drawn district sent Figures to Washington. The seat was manufactured by a judge.
On Monday afternoon, May 11, 2026, the United States Supreme Court vacated that map, 6-3. The order remanded the case for reconsideration under Louisiana v. Callais, the April 28 ruling that gutted Section 2 race-conscious districting. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented. The 2023 Legislature-drawn map is back in force.
Under that map, District 2 is no longer the seat that elected him. Mobile and Baldwin counties move to District 1. The Wiregrass — Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston, Covington, Pike, Crenshaw — moves into District 2. BVAP drops from approximately 48.7% to 39.9%. The partisan environment swings roughly 22 points. The seat is now R+17.
Every dollar that flowed into Figures's campaign account flowed in to invest in a court order, not a candidate. The court order is gone. The candidate remains. November 3 is the day District 2 voters take this seat back.
The DCCC, EMILY's List, the voting-rights-litigation PACs, and the national redistricting machinery did not invest in Shomari Figures the man. They invested in a Section 2 district. With the Section 2 district gone, the case for the investment goes with it. Q1 dropped April 15. The Q2 FEC report is due July 15. That is the first quarter the Court-Appointed Incumbent has to fundraise without a court order to sell. We will see what is left.
The Figures family lives in the Washington area. That was the geography when he ran in 2024, and it has been the geography for his term. With 175 days until the general election and a district that just added roughly 200,000 new voters in the Wiregrass who have never met him, the question of whether the candidate is physically present in Alabama for the duration of the campaign is a fair one. Most Alabama members of Congress fly home on the weekends. The Congressman who represents District 2 has a four-hour drive between his front door and the Capitol.
Shomari Figures has spent his term representing Mobile, Montgomery, and the Black Belt under the court-drawn map. The Wiregrass — Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Houston, Covington, Pike, Crenshaw — was never his territory. It was Barry Moore's. Figures has no relationships there, no campaign history there, no events on the public record there. He has 175 days to introduce himself to a region he has not previously represented, anchored by a peanut economy, a Fort Novosel military community, and a church culture he has not previously engaged. Whether he shows up will be visible.
Two-point-seven million dollars in crypto money. Hundreds of thousands more from out-of-state PACs, ideological mega-donors, and the national party machinery. 89.4% of every dollar raised came from outside Alabama. 74.4% came from PACs. $40,145 came from actual Alabama citizens. The math was never about Alabama. It was about a district drawn by a federal judge.
On Monday, the Supreme Court erased that district. The map that justified your investment no longer exists. The legal theory that produced it has been gutted by Callais. The Black Voting Age Population dropped from 48.7% to 39.9%. The seat shifted 22 points toward the GOP. So here is the question for every name on our Wall of Shame:
Was your money on Shomari Figures the man, or on the court order that delivered him a district?
Because the answer matters. If you bet on the man, your candidate is still on the ballot — in a district where he has no history, no relationships, no Wiregrass events, and 175 days to introduce himself to 200,000 new voters who have never heard his name. If you bet on the court order, your investment is gone. Either way, the voters of District 2 deserve to know which it was.
See The Full Wall Of ShameClick any card to read the full analysis with sourced data and public records.
Every out-of-state mega-donor, every crypto PAC, every ideological bundler who bought a District 2 seat that the Supreme Court just took away. With the map gone, this list is now a permanent record.
See Who Paid89.4% out-of-state. 74.4% from PACs. $40,145 from Alabama citizens. An FEC analysis of every dollar raised — by state, by source, by donor.
Read the Full AnalysisHe campaigns as a moderate. He votes as a progressive. Every key roll call vote from the 119th Congress — what he said vs. how he voted.
See Every VoteA four-hour drive from front door to Capitol. The Figures family lives in the Washington area. Will they move home for the 175 days that decide District 2?
Read the Story$2.7 million from Silicon Valley crypto billionaires in a district they had never visited. Their ads talked about healthcare. They never mentioned cryptocurrency.
Follow the ChainA precinct-level analysis of the 2024 result. The map that elected him. The map that just got vacated. The numbers behind the seat that no longer exists.
View the AnalysisOn the morning of May 12, the Congressman issued a statement: "The fight must and will go on." His plan is to ask three lower-court judges to overrule the Supreme Court on a different constitutional theory. That is a litigation strategy. It is not a campaign. The campaign is in the Wiregrass, in Macon County, in Montgomery, and in the Black Belt — in living rooms and church basements and union halls between now and November 3.
We will see how much of the Court-Appointed Incumbent's 175 days is spent in courthouses, and how much is spent in District 2.