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How Voting Rights Groups Are Rallying to Fight After the Supreme Court Hollowed a Landmark Law
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling to narrow a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, voting and civil rights advocates in Southern states are rallying to attempt to protect the electoral power of racial minority groups. The conservative-majority court overturned Louisiana’s electoral map in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines on Wednesday, finding that redrawing the state’s voting lines to add a second Black-majority district constituted an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”The decision significantly weakens Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which outlaws racial discrimination in voting and has been used for decades to protect against attempts to diminish minority voters’ electoral strength.The ruling could have sweeping consequences for minority representation in government and the balance of power in Congress. It opens the door for Republican-led states, particularly in the South, to redraw congressional maps to eliminate some majority-minority districts represented by Democrats in favor of new lines that could help the GOP gain additional seats in the House.“Under the Court’s new view of Section 2, a State can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissenting opinion joined by her liberal colleagues that she opted to read out loud
SCOTUS just unleashed a gerrymandering dragon
analysis The Court's 6-3 decision gutting the Voting Rights Act will reshape the nation's political map in dramatic fashion Contributing Writer Published May 1, 2026 1:30PM (EDT) The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais will do severe damage to voters (Douglas Rissing/Getty Images) So much for the mid-decade redistricting wars ending in a tie. On April 21, Democrats engineered themselves a 10-1 gerrymander in Virginia, a pickup of four seats. Party leaders declared it payback and boasted about their new fighting spirit. Political pundits declared the mid-decade gerrymandering war had been fought to a stalemate, or that it had even backfired on Republicans. Five new red seats in Texas, balanced by five blue ones in California. Four new Democratic seats in Virginia to counterbalance Ohio, Missouri and North Carolina. No harm, no foul! Then the big shoe dropped. The Supreme Court, in a 6-3, party-line decision in Callais v. Louisiana, struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and installed new limits on the Voting Rights Act that will make it all but impossible to challenge districts that dilute minority voters. A report by Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter found this could erase up to 19 House seats held
Black voters could lose congressional seats after Supreme Court guts Voting Rights Act protection
The Supreme Court’s gutting of a key Voting Rights Act protection is threatening to erase hard-won congressional representation for Black voters in Louisiana and Alabama — and Democrats are racing to court to stop it. The high court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana’s majority-Black district map violated the Voting Rights Act, reversing a lower court order that had guaranteed Black voters — and Democrats — a majority in two of the state’s six congressional districts. Under the previous map, Republicans held five of six seats. The ruling left Louisiana’s electoral future unsettled. Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, declared a state of emergency to halt voting — even though tens of thousands of absentee ballots had already been mailed and some had been cast and returned. Democrats immediately sued. “This court is asked to do something simple: stop a state from canceling an election that is already underway,” challengers said in a lawsuit filed Thursday. A lower court agreed, barring Louisiana from using the old 5-1 Republican map. In Alabama, state officials argued the ruling clears the way for a similar GOP-friendly redraw. The NAACP and the National Redistricting Foundation urged the Supreme Court not to fast-track those cases while voters are
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Which states might redraw congressional maps in 2026, 2028 after Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling
The bare-knuckle, partisan mid-decade redistricting battles that have occurred across the country over the past year and a half might become the new normal in the light of a landmark Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday that could impact congressional maps and minority representation nationwide. The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais could result in states redistricting every few years, instead of every 10 after the release of census data. But with many states' candidate filing deadlines having passed, it's not clear how many more congressional seats could be redrawn because of this ruling ahead of November's midterm elections -- although there could be Republican-controlled states that use the ruling to redistrict ahead of the 2028 elections, and Democratic-controlled ones that plan to respond.Joshua Stockley, a political science professor at the University of Louisiana Monroe, said the country is already seeing "a domino effect" of redistricting, which the ruling could supercharge. People walk outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, March 14, 2026.Will Dunham/Reuters"I think Republicans and Democrats, both parties, are going to continue to try to create as many non-competitive or favored districts as they can until we get to a point where somebody steps in and says, 'Enough is