Legal experts say the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a South Carolina congressional map that federal courts deemed racially discriminatory will likely make it more difficult for voters to challenge racially gerrymandered maps.
Today, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that South Carolina’s congressional map is not a racial gerrymander, reversing a lower court decision that struck down the map.
When voters cast their ballots this fall in South Carolina and Louisiana, they’ll be voting with congressional maps deemed unlawful by federal courts.
The U.S Supreme Court granted requests from both the state and Black Louisiana voters and civil rights organizations to allow Louisiana’s new congressional map to remain in place while they appeal a lower court ruling that struck it down.
The nation’s most conservative federal appeals court is slated to rehear two redistricting cases, which could determine where and for whom minority voters in a Texas county can cast their ballots and whether a decadesold consent decree in Louisiana will continue.
Louisiana asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to pause a lower federal court ruling that struck down the state’s new congressional map so the state can prepare for the 2024 election season.
Black Louisiana voters and civil rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the state’s congressional map to remain in place while they appeal a lower court ruling that struck it down.
Louisianans may finally get new legislative and congressional maps this summer under two court orders that lay out a timeline for when compliant maps must be in place.
A group of Black voters are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the district court ruling that struck down the map — and quickly.
Voters in Louisiana will have a new Supreme Court map for the first time in over two decades after Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a new map into law last night that creates two majority-Black districts.