Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Today In One Line

The Supreme Court's June 1 deadline has passed with no ruling. The court-drawn map still governs. Figures has now gone 76 days without a public statement on the Tuskegee dialysis closure that happened on his watch.

SCOTUS — deadline passed, no ruling

Yesterday was the day Justice Thomas set for plaintiffs to respond to Alabama's emergency stay application. That deadline passed. As of this morning, no ruling has been issued.

What that means: the Court is not on Alabama's schedule. It can rule at any time — today, this week, or later. The court-drawn map remains in effect for August 11 planning purposes until the Court acts. Election administrators continue building toward the configuration they have.

The practical consequence is the same as yesterday: Hampton Harris and the rest of the Republican field are running to take back this district. The map question does not change that. Every vote cast on August 11 is a vote to send a conservative Republican to Washington in place of Shomari Figures.

Figures — 76 days of silence on Tuskegee

The DaVita dialysis facility in Tuskegee closed May 17. Nearly 50 Macon County patients — some of the poorest in the state — now travel farther for life-sustaining kidney treatment three times a week.

Figures' last public statement on dialysis access: March 18. That is 76 days ago.

Since then, Figures has introduced the HBCU Research Capacity Act and helped pass the Made in America Jobs Act. Both are real votes. Neither is a dialysis center. His constituents in Macon County are not waiting for press releases — they are driving extra miles for treatment while their congressman's office is silent.

This is the record. Not an attack. A fact.

What Figures did this week

— Co-sponsored the HBCU Research Capacity Act (Senate companion: Britt-Warnock bill S. 4167) — Passed the Made in America Jobs Act, which targets foreign job relocation

Figures is active on Capitol Hill. He is building a legislative record for reelection. The gap is not effort — it is delivery on the specific, visible failures in his own district. Legislative activity in Washington is not the same as solving a dialysis crisis in Tuskegee.

The Republican field — 70 days out

Six Republicans are on the August 11 ballot: Hampton Harris, Rhett Marques, David Matthews, Christian Horn, Joshua McKee, and James Richardson.

Hampton Harris was the first Republican to qualify for this race. No PAC money. No Washington backers. A Mobile native running because this district deserves a representative who shows up — not one who calls a press release a result.

Marques carries Britt's endorsement and her fundraising network. That machine is real. The contrast is also real: Harris earned his support one voter at a time.

Why August 11 matters

Special elections run on low turnout. The candidate with the most organized, most motivated base wins — not the candidate with the most name ID or the most Washington money. District 2 Republicans who show up on August 11 are the ones who decide this.

70 days. The ground work starts now.