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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
US Voting Rights Act](/news/2026/4/30/has-the-us-supreme-court-weakened-the-voting-rights-act-and-how). While the Supreme Court’s [ruling](/news/2026/4/29/us-top-court-voids-louisiana-voting-map-amid-national-redistricting-fight) on Louisiana’s electoral
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 that the electoral map of Louisiana
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
ruling on a US supreme court case – Louisiana v Callais – which may invalidate parts of the Voting Rights Act
US Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act, AP reports. The court ruled that Louisiana
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 effectively decimated the Voting Rights Act, said the decision sends the US “backwards”. The 6-3 ruling in Louisiana
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
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, which prevented diluting the voting power of minorities, was unconstitutional. Under the ruling, challengers must now prove that
US supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court) has ruled that Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map, in a landmark voting rights case. At the heart of the case, [Louisiana v Callais](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting-voting-rights-act),
Voting Rights Act. The decision could make it harder for Democrats to challenge Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts in ways that limit the influence of voters of color. DeSantis’s map could increase Republicans
supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court) is “simply not part of the political process”, Roberts claimed. He acknowledged, however, that some of its decisions may spark controversy. “One thing we have to do is make decisions
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
ruling to the US fifth circuit court, which many regard as the country’s [most conservative appellate court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/state-voting-rights-acts-supreme-court-ruling). Duncan, 63, whose murder conviction was vacated in 2021 after evidence emerged that police