The Republican Alabama congressman whose district a special master proposed on Monday to be carved up blamed “activist judges” for the proposal.

But two of the three judges that paved the way for the special master were nominated to the bench by Donald Trump.

“Today, a federal court released three proposed maps that will split south Alabama into two different congressional districts. Once again we have seen activist judges overstep their roles,” Rep. Jerry Carl, R-Mobile, tweeted Monday night.

“South Alabama and its communities need to stay together,” the congressman said. “However, let me be clear, I will be running for re-election in Alabama’s First Congressional District.”

Special Master Richard Allen’s three proposed congressional maps all slice Carl’s south Alabama district, including putting most of Mobile in a new district.

Allen’s maps were set in motion when he was appointed special master by a three-judge court: U.S. Circuit Court Judge Stanley Marcus and U.S. District Judges Anna Manasco and Terry Moorer.

Two of the three — Manasco and Moorer — were nominated by Trump.

And while Marcus was nominated to his current post on the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals by Bill Clinton, he was tapped by Ronald Reagan to a seat on the federal bench in Florida.

The dispute that led to the lawsuit started two years ago, when the Legislature drew a new map, as required after every census. Organizations and Black voters filed lawsuits challenging the map.

The key issue is whether Alabama’s congressional map, with one majority Black district out of seven, dilutes the influence of Black voters in a state where one-fourth of residents are Black.

The three-judge court ruled in January 2022 that a map passed by the GOP-led Legislature in 2021 likely violated the Voting Rights Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that decision in June 2023, sending the case back to the three-judge court.

In a special session in July, Republican lawmakers approved a new map over the objections of Democrats.

The new map made substantial changes but left District 7 in west Alabama as the only majority Black district. The three-judge court, which held a hearing August 14, found that legislators failed to follow the court’s guidance to create a second majority Black district or one close to majority Black, a district where Black voters would have an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.

State Rep. Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, disagreed with Carl and suggested Allen’s maps are fair.

“The three remedial plans submitted to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama by the Special Master represent a chance to restore the power of the vote for Black Alabamians, and all Alabamians,” Daniels said. “All three maps place the majority of the City of Mobile in a proposed Congressional District 2. This is a clear rejection of the State’s attempts at subversion, and a rebuke of the manner in which the legislative majority twisted our shared history into a shield for discrimination.