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Supreme Court calls Louisiana's House map an 'unconstitutional racial gerrymander'

Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, ruled that Louisiana's 2024 election map, which created a second majority-Black congressional

Iran war has cost $25B, Pentagon says. And, SCOTUS strikes blow to Voting Rights Act

Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Louisiana's 2024 election map** was an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander." The map established a second majority-Black congressional

Voters are caught in the middle as the redistricting battle intensifies

Supreme Court decision struck down a Louisiana congressional map, and the state's Republican governor, Jeff Landry, postponed voting for U.S. House primaries so state lawmakers could enact new district lines. "Allowing elections to proceed

Anger mounts after Tennessee Republicans redraw maps – US politics live

maps in the wake of last week’slandmark [Callais v Landry](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling) decision supreme court ruling, which invalidated swaths of the Voting Rights Act which had restrained state governments from drawing congressional districts

Tennessee Republicans pass a map to break up the state's lone Democratic House seat

Louisiana congressional district at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday to severely weaken the Voting Rights Act.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2199x2199+743+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2Fb2%2Ff4e201b5422cb39ae678f1896741%2Fap26119780621816.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus) ### [Elections](https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/) ### [Supreme Court paves

Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress

Louisiana congressional district at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Wednesday to severely weaken the Voting Rights Act. **J. Scott Applewhite/AP** J. Scott Applewhite/AP A historic drop in representation by Black

Why the Supreme Court's voting rights ruling could play a big role at the local level

Louisiana congressional district at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday to severely weaken the Voting Rights Act.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2199x2199+743+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2Fb2%2Ff4e201b5422cb39ae678f1896741%2Fap26119780621816.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus) ### [Elections](https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/) ### [Supreme Court paves

The Supreme Court has left limited alternatives for protecting minority voting rights

Louisiana congressional district at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday to severely weaken the Voting Rights Act.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2199x2199+743+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2Fb2%2Ff4e201b5422cb39ae678f1896741%2Fap26119780621816.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus) ### [Elections](https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/) ### [Supreme Court paves

Republicans poised to vote on new House map that would erase Democratic seat in Tennessee – US politics live

Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act, AP reports. The court ruled that Louisiana relied too heavily on race when creating a second Black-majority House district as it attempted to comply

‘Where can we find hope?’: your questions about the US supreme court’s voting rights decision answered

supreme court [rejected](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/virginia-supreme-court-rules-against-congressional-maps?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct) a voter-approved congressional map that would have given Democrats four seats in the House. Democrats can win but maps will continue to change in the coming months

Supreme Court is death knell for Virginia's Democratic-friendly congressional maps

Supreme Court [blocked the redrawing](https://www.npr.org/2026/03/02/g-s1-112253/supreme-court-new-york-redistricting) of a New York map expected to flip a Republican congressional district Democratic. And perhaps most importantly, in April, the [high court ruled](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting) that

The Supreme Court avoids taking up a fight over Voting Rights Act enforcement for now

maps back to lower courts to be reconsidered in light of its recent ruling in *Louisiana v. Callais*. [![Members of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and other marchers gather in Selma, Ala., in 2025 to commemorate

Democrats up in Virginia, but US voters may pay price for redistricting war

rules, the other follows, until courts or voters draw the final line.” ## Democrats gain – for now Trump has not been timid about his desire to redraw state congressional maps to benefit his Republican Party

Louisiana plans to delay House primaries after Supreme Court redistricting ruling

ruling Louisiana is preparing to delay its House primaries after the Supreme Court struck down its current map. In a statement [posted to social media](https://x.com/LAGovJeffLandry/status/2049847456095928434), Republican Gov. Jeff Landry said the court

US southern states rush to redraw electoral maps to dilute Black voting power

congressional districts to get rid of the state’s lone Democrat in Congress. Louisiana, the state at the center of the supreme court’s Voting Rights Act decision, [is on the brink](https://www.nola.com/news/politics/elections/redistricting-louisiana-congressional-map-senate-committee/article_3d12f622-8fd6-4aa0-9a02-5fb5980bd84d.html)

Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district

congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts in this year’s midterm elections, the [US supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court) ruled in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, another

Supreme Court's Alabama redistricting decision could encourage more chaos, experts warn

rules were for the Voting Rights Act, the Alabama legislature's map was "tainted by intentional race-based discrimination" and thus violated the Constitutional guarantee to equal protection of the law. The Supreme Court

In the birthplace of Civil Rights Movement, groups rally to defend Black political representation

Supreme Court cleared the way for a different map that could let the GOP reclaim the seat. While the matter remains under litigation, the state plans special primaries Aug. 11 under the new map. Democratic

Redistricting debate shifts to South Carolina as Republicans seek clean sweep of House seats – US politics live

map that could yield a clean sweep for Republicans, AP reports. Debates already have played out in Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana as [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) push to leverage a recent Supreme Court ruling that

Florida is latest US state to enter redistricting war ahead of 2026 election

supreme court case – Louisiana v Callais – which may invalidate parts of the Voting Rights Act and offer more room for mapmakers to make changes. But that ruling has yet to be issued. The filing deadline