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Supreme Court ruling in late April undid a key provision of the Voting Rights Act
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
supreme court ruling, which invalidated swaths of the Voting Rights Act which had restrained state
supreme court issued a ruling greatly weakening the Voting Rights Act, allowing states to [break
Supreme Court strikes another severe blow to the Voting Rights Act](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting) "Allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate the rights
Supreme Court ruling](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/voting-rights-act-2026-midterms-republicans-gerrymandering-redistricting-00899022) that weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
ruling on a US supreme court case – Louisiana v Callais – which may invalidate parts of the Voting Rights Act
supreme court’s Louisiana v Callais ruling, which narrowed a key protection of the Voting Rights Act
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
supreme court ruling](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling) gutted key anti-discrimination protections in the 1965 Voting Rights Act
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 to the 1965 Voting
Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that its map was unconstitutional, blowing a hole in the Voting Rights Act
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 of which
Supreme Court's order, which was opposed by the court's three liberal-leaning justices, came after its recent ruling in a Louisiana redistricting case that [weakened the Voting Rights Act
Supreme Court would weaken the Voting Rights Act in a way that would support redistricting in Florida. Indeed, after that morning ruling
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
ruled that Louisiana's 2024 election map, which created a second majority-Black congressional district, was "an unconstitutional racial gerrymander." Although the court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, Wednesday's decision
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supreme court’s decision from earlier today effectively [gutting a major section](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling) of the Voting Rights Act. Trump claimed that he was unaware of today’s rulinguntil the moment a reporter asked
voted to repeal the conditional immunity provision. Northern Ireland's High Court and the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal (NICA) had both previously found that [parts of the Act were incompatible with human rights