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With House primary delay, Louisiana thrust into election chaos

Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that its map was unconstitutional, blowing a hole in the Voting Rights Act. That’s giving Republicans the narrowest of windows to gerrymander one or two new seats before

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

Redistricting debate shifts to South Carolina as Republicans seek clean sweep of House seats – US politics live Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. **An effort to reshape South Carolina’s congressional districts

Florida lawmakers pass a voting map that could help Republicans flip four House seats

Plan during debate before its passage in the Florida Senate. **Mike Stewart/AP** Mike Stewart/AP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida lawmakers have approved a new Congressional map that could position Republicans to win four additional U.S. House seats

Virginia’s victory good for Democrats but also shows Trump’s redistricting battle could be all for nothing

plan went awry in the months that followed, when Indiana senate Republicans [refused to join](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/indiana-voting-map-republicans-trump) in the gerrymandering campaign, a bipartisan commission in Ohio enacted new maps that put Democratic incumbents

South Carolina Republicans defy Trump again to reject rapid redistricting drive

Supreme Court ruling that [weakened minority protections](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling) under the federal Voting Rights Act. The South Carolina state senate is composed of 34 Republican senators and 12 Democratic senators. Fourteen Republicans voted with

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

‘The GOP should’ve done more’: Virginia Republicans point fingers after gerrymandering loss

Supreme Court, which [reserved the right to weigh in](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/how-virginias-top-court-might-decide-democrats-gerrymandering-fate-00777364) on the new map after the election, voids Democrats’ effort. “This close margin reinforces that Virginia is a purple state that shouldn

First Thing: US-Iran ceasefire at risk after exchange of fire in strait of Hormuz

plan to guide tankers through the strait of Hormuz was ditched just days after it was launched, apparently because [Saudi Arabia refused to let the US](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/trump-project-freedom-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz) use its bases and airspace

South Carolina Republicans defy Trump’s demands for redistricting

supreme court rendered ineffective a major section of the civil rights law that prevented racial discrimination, Shane Massey, the Republican majority leader in South Carolina’s senate, argued in an extraordinary address that doing

Voting Rights Act ruling is ‘red meat’ to Republicans in south, says Black lawmaker targeted by gerrymander

ruling is ‘red meat’ to Republicans in south, says Black lawmaker targeted by gerrymander The supreme court decision that effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA) “was red meat to the Republican legislators

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

Republican-led Southern states race to redo their congressional maps after the U.S. Supreme Court [weakened the Voting Rights Act's](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting) protections against racial discrimination, the decision's effects may be felt