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US supreme court expedites Voting Rights Act ruling so Louisiana can redraw its maps for midterms
Rights Act ruling, allowing Louisiana Republicans to redraw maps for midterms**  The court gutted section 2 of the Voting
US Voting Rights Act](/news/2026/4/30/has-the-us-supreme-court-weakened-the-voting-rights-act-and-how). While the Supreme Court’s [ruling](/news/2026/4/29/us-top-court-voids-louisiana-voting-map-amid-national-redistricting-fight) on Louisiana’s electoral
US Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act – and how? The United States Supreme Court has [voided](/news/2026/4/29/us-top-court-voids-louisiana-voting-map-amid-national-redistricting-fight) a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by ruling that the electoral map of Louisiana
US supreme court [ruled](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-109_21o3.pdf) that Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map, in a landmark decision that effectively guts a major section of the Voting Rights Act
ruling on a US supreme court case – Louisiana v Callais – which may invalidate parts of the Voting Rights Act
US Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act, AP reports. The court ruled that Louisiana
Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana’s electoral map was unconstitutionally drawn to create two Black-majority districts. The decision announced on Thursday represented a major reinterpretation of the landmark US [Voting Rights Act
US Supreme Court ruling [weakening part of the Voting Rights Act](/news/2026/4/30/has-the-us-supreme-court-weakened-the-voting-rights-act-and-how) related to electoral district maps. While the Senate primary went ahead as planned, Louisiana
US video podcast. Composite: AP/The Guardian The supreme court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana
Supreme Court ruling in late April undid a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 meant to protect Black voting power from being diluted. That can be achieved by effectively carving up areas
supreme court effectively decimated the Voting Rights Act, said the decision sends the US “backwards”. The 6-3 ruling in Louisiana
US supreme court ruling that significantly weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minorities. But more southern states could follow. Republicans in Louisiana
US Supreme Court ruling, powered by its conservative majority, that eviscerated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, opening the door for Republican-led Southern states to dismantle Democratic-held majority-Black and majority
US Supreme Court [ruled](/news/2026/4/29/us-top-court-voids-louisiana-voting-map-amid-national-redistricting-fight) that a Congressional map in Louisiana, previously redrawn to include two Black majority districts, was unconstitutional. The ruling by the conservative-dominated panel represented a major blow
Louisiana as [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) push to leverage a recent Supreme Court ruling that weakened Voting Rights Act protections for minority districts. The ruling has opened the way for Republicans to redraw districts with
supreme court ruling, which invalidated swaths of the Voting Rights Act which had restrained state governments from drawing congressional districts that left Black voters at a political disadvantage. Republicans in Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina
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) of implementing a new map that would eliminate the seat
Supreme Court could beckon in another slate of redistricting in the US South. In Louisiana v Callais, the justices will determine whether the creation of two Black-majority congressional districts is in line with
US supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court) ruled in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, another major blow to Black voters and a win for Republicans. The court’s emergency ruling is the most consequential decision