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congressional districts, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Alabama to use a map that had been blocked by the courts. The move increases the chances of Republicans picking
Republicans currently hold a slim majority. Just this month, the [Supreme Court issued a decision](/news/2026/4/30/has-the-us-supreme-court-weakened-the-voting-rights-act-and-how) that clears the way for Alabama to install a congressional map
congressional district](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/07/tennessee-congressional-map-redistricting) last week. In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis [signed a new map](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/florida-new-congressional-maps-desantis) shortly after the supreme court decision came down. Alabama’s Republican
supreme court upheld](https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jun/08/supreme-court-voting-rights-decision-allen-milligan) the court’s decision. When Alabama Republicans went to redraw the map in 2023, they passed a plan [that did not comply with the court’s order](https://www.theguardian.com
map shortly after the supreme court decision came down. Republicans in Tennessee eliminated the state’s one Black congressional district and Alabama
Republican officials in Alabama, which had previously postponed scheduled primary elections for four congressional seats to draw up new maps, have said that they will appeal Tuesday’s decision to the US Supreme Court
congressional maps to produce more Republican-leaning seats following the court’s voting rights decision. But the [Virginia](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/virginia) situation was different, stemming from a 4-3 ruling by the Virginia supreme court
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)
Alabama and Tennessee, are rushing to revise their congressional maps after the original supreme court decision. On Monday, Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, signed [a gerrymandered congressional district map](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/florida-new-congressional-maps-desantis) into law that
decision could encourage more chaos, experts warn  The U.S. Supreme Court **Kent Nishimura/Getty Images** Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The Supreme Court was in the news Wednesday after delivering
congressional races. The case, however, was not over. In its ruling, the Supreme Court had ordered a lower court panel to continue evaluating Alabama's map in light of its recent Voting Rights Act decision
decision 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
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
supreme court affirmed that Louisiana’s congressional maps violated the equal protection clause. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito held that section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which for four decades
supreme court ruled in a 6-3 decision that [Alabama can use a redrawn congressional map](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/supreme-court-alabama-map) that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts** in this year’s midterm
congressional map](https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844744/supreme-court-alabama-congressional-districts) that a lower court found intentionally discriminates against Black voters. That ruling has also heightened concerns about the future of racial-minority representation in government — particularly in Southern states where
Alabama has successfully [petitioned the US supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/supreme-court-alabama-republicans-new-congressional-maps) to allow it to eliminate a district currently represented by a Black Democrat. In South Carolina, the Republican governor is [reportedly poised](https://www.politico.com
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 Black
Republican-led [Tennessee](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/07/tennessee-congressional-map-redistricting) legislature passed new redistricting maps, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district. Other southern states, like [Mississippi](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/mississippi-redistricting-old-capitol), are expected to follow suit
Alabama to quickly ask the court to release it from that injunction in light of the Callais decision. **Mississippi** could also move quickly to get rid of a district represented by Bennie Thompson, a Black