Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama said on Friday she would summon lawmakers to consider a new congressional map under the newly weakened Voting Rights Act, but acknowledged legislators could act only if the Supreme Court clears the way.

Ms. Ivey’s call for a special session may not affect the 2026 midterm elections, but it was the first step taken by a state not directly affected by this week’s Supreme Court decision that further eroded the law. That decision rejected Louisiana’s congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander.

Alabama has longstanding court battles over its congressional map and whether Black voters have had their power undermined. On Thursday, Ms. Ivey had said adopting a new map was impossible before November, because a federal court order bars the state from using new district lines until after the 2030 census.

Later that day, Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, asked the Supreme Court to let lawmakers revisit the map. Mr. Marshall filed motions in three redistricting cases pending before the court, asking the justices to lift lower court orders preventing that.

In her statement, Ms. Ivey said she wants legislators to be in position to move quickly. She suggested that if the Supreme Court allowed, the state would return to a congressional map previously approved in 2023 and a state senate map approved in 2021.