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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
Rights Act ruling United States President Donald Trump has said Tennessee will redraw its electoral map following a US Supreme Court ruling that gutted a key provision of the landmark [US Voting
ruling, combined with a recent US Supreme Court decision severely weakening the [Voting Rights Act
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
US Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act, AP reports. The court
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
supreme court ruling, Republicans able to marginalize Black political power The Voting Rights Act was a political peace compact written in John Lewis’s blood. The Callais v Landry decision by the [US
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
ruling on a US supreme court case – Louisiana v Callais – which may invalidate parts of the Voting Rights Act
US President Donald Trump’s second term. Here’s what to know. ## What did the Supreme Court ruling do? The 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in late April undid a key provision of the Voting
US Supreme Court ruled last week that a [provision](/news/2026/4/30/has-the-us-supreme-court-weakened-the-voting-rights-act-and-how) of the landmark 1973 Voting Rights Act
US south are organizing their next steps** after a supreme court [ruling on the Voting Rights Act
supreme court effectively decimated the Voting Rights Act, said the decision sends the US “backwards”. The 6-3 ruling
US supreme court’s conservative majority struck down a major element of the Voting Rights Act which protects against racial discrimination in redistricting**, in a ruling
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
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
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 decision in late April has weakened how that law may be enforced. The high court struck down a key provision in the Voting Rights Act, making it easier to break up predominantly
US supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court) effectively gutted a major section of the [Voting Rights Act.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/supreme-court-voting-rights-ruling-explainer) The move cracks Tennessee’s ninth congressional district, which covers Memphis, into three pieces, each