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The Supreme Court has left limited alternatives for protecting minority voting rights

redistricting.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F84%2Fee%2Fa82c60634901b878bffd2096d3e8%2Fap26136686534987.jpg) A demonstrator holds a sign saying "PROTECT OUR VOTE!" at a May 16 rally in Montgomery, Ala., responding to the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakens Voting Rights Act

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

Supreme Court's new limits on the Voting Rights Act's longstanding protections against racial discrimination in redistricting come seven years after the conservative justices [ruled

Supreme Court's Alabama redistricting decision could encourage more chaos, experts warn

redistricting 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

How the SCOTUS voting rights ruling could affect Congress, according to Eric Holder

Supreme Court's recent ruling that reinterprets longstanding protections under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3767x2188+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5c%2Fba%2F39a700a34c49bead3b35cb1bc085%2Fgettyimages-924982852.jpg) Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who serves as the chairman of the the National

Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redistricting plan in US

redistricting elsewhere at the urging of President Donald Trump. That ruling, combined with a recent US Supreme Court decision severely weakening the [Voting Rights Act

Trump says Tennessee next to redistrict after US Voting Rights Act ruling

redistrict after US Voting Rights Act ruling United States President Donald Trump has said Tennessee will redraw its electoral map following a US Supreme Court

US top court voids Louisiana voting map amid national redistricting fight

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](https://interactive.aljazeera.com

Tennessee Republicans pass a map to break up the state's lone Democratic House seat

ruling on Wednesday to severely weaken the Voting Rights Act.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2199x2199+743+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2Fb2%2Ff4e201b5422cb39ae678f1896741%2Fap26119780621816.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus) ### [Elections](https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/) ### [Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus) Thursday

The Supreme Court avoids taking up a fight over Voting Rights Act enforcement for now

Supreme Court's voting rights ruling could play a big role at the local level](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5812837/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-state-local-redistricting) That landmark decision in April weakened the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination in redistricting

Tennessee Democrat ends re-election bid after map redrawing carves up his district

Redistricting targeted Cohen’s district Tennessee was the first state to pass new congressional districts after a US supreme court ruling that significantly weakened federal Voting Rights Act

Voters are caught in the middle as the redistricting battle intensifies

ruling; S.C. redistricting stalls](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/nx-s1-5819600/alabama-congressional-redistricting-special-election) This week, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to change its congressional map, in the wake of the Voting Rights Act

Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district

redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the [US supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court) effectively gutted a major section of the [Voting Rights Act

Clyburn's district stays intact as South Carolina Republicans scrap redistricting

Act.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4000x4000+1047+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F17%2Fff%2F666888124b2c9177b14a9759598e%2Fgettyimages-2204197979.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5812837/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-state-local-redistricting) ### [Elections](https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/) ### [Why the Supreme Court's voting rights ruling could play a big role at the local level](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5812837/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-state-local-redistricting) [![U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, D-La., attends

Alabama will split U.S. House primaries, after the Supreme Court's voting ruling

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

Louisiana claims supreme court voting rights decision means it cannot carry out primaries with current electoral maps – live

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.** **In a 6-3 decision

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

Supreme Court would weaken the Voting Rights Act in a way that would support redistricting in Florida. Indeed, after that morning ruling

Florida is latest US state to enter redistricting war ahead of 2026 election

redistricting while waiting for a ruling on a US supreme court case – Louisiana v Callais – which may invalidate parts of the Voting Rights Act

Has the US Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act – and how?

redistricting, rather than gerrymandering. ## How has the US Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act? Section 2 of the act was amended by Congress in 1982 to prohibit electoral maps that would result in undermining

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supreme court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana v Callais last month that states could not consider race in redistricting

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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