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Breaking: New Supreme Court order boosts Republican's chances of a new Louisiana congressional map this year

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Mon May 4 2026

Supreme Court issues new emergency voting rights ruling that boosts GOP

People rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court following arguments heard in Louisiana v. Callais on March 24, 2025. On April 29, 2026, the nation's highest court struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” had challenged as the product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. By a vote of 6-3, the justices left in place a ruling by a federal court that barred the state from using the map, which had created a second
majority-Black district, in future elections.

After the Supreme Court threw out Louisiana's congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, the fight turned to what happens next.

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