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NPR - 13 hours 47 min agoThe state's highest court will now consider a deal that would allow the Onion to license the Infowars brand name and turn the show into a mockery of itself.
President Trump said Thursday that he spoke with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) about redistricting in the state to give Republicans a leg up in congressional races ahead of the November midterm elections. The conversation comes after a Wednesday Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act provision that creates majority-minority districts....
Mother Jones - 14 hours 4 min agoOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the country’s most important civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the law that defeated Jim Crow. For 100 years, from 1865 to 1965, Black people were systematically and actively excluded from participation in American democracy through racial violence, but more commonly through race-neutral […]...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that other states should redraw their congressional maps in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that Louisiana's addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. "The Supreme Court said that in Louisiana's case it was blatantly unconstitutional," Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju in...
Slate - 14 hours 20 min agoNo one is fooled by Justice Alito's act of cowardice, unless it is Justice Alito himself.
Scott Jennings critiques Obama's flip-flop on gerrymandering after the 2026 Supreme Court ruling.
ABC News - 14 hours 49 min agoThe Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's map violated the Voting Rights Act.
Two nonpartisan election handicappers identified seven districts that could be at risk of being redrawn to favor Republicans following the Supreme Court's Wednesday decision limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act provision that creates majority-minority districts. Both Cook Political Report and Sabato's Crystal Ball, which is published by the University of Virginia's Center for...
Babylon Bee - 15 hours 9 min agoWith yesterday's ruling, the United States Supreme Court officially declared it illegal to redraw voting districts based on the races of its citizenry. Sad!...
Daily Signal - 15 hours 10 min agoAfter the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana congressional district on Wednesday as “unconstitutional racial gerrymandering,” the state will have to redo its congressional map, Gov. Jeff Landry said in a joint statement with Attorney General Liz Murrill. Before the Supreme Court ruling, a federal district court issued an injunction against using the current map....
Decider - 15 hours 16 min ago"That is disgusting, despicable, and I am devastated by this particular Supreme Court decision, even though Whoopi, we did know this was coming," she said on Thursday's episode of The View.
"The State is currently enjoined from carrying out congressional elections under the current map. We are working together with the Legislature and the Secretary of State's office to develop a path forward," Landry and state Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a joint statement.
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that ends racial gerrymandering has at least temporarily made the D...
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that race-based gerrymandering of congressional districts is not a compelling governmental interest.
State's governor and attorney general move to postpone midterm 2026 primaries just a day after supreme court ruling guts Voting Rights Act Louisiana postpones primaries as states rush to redraw districts after supreme court ruling On Wednesday, the US supreme court ruled 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 along partisan lines, the court rendered ineffective section...
Louisiana will change its congressional maps before the 2026 midterm elections, top officials said Thursday, following a notable Supreme Court decision on a key portion of the Voting Rights Act. "The State is currently enjoined from carrying out congressional elections under the current map. We are working together with the Legislature and the Secretary of...
MAGA's Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has seized upon the Supreme Court ruling to suspend voting in the imminent primary elections, which critics said was legally shaky at best'...
Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, a Republican, outside the White House in 2025. Mr. Landry is weighing whether to suspend the state's May 16 primary to redraw congressional maps.
The ruling will seemingly affect the 2028 election season since some filing deadlines for this year's congressional races have passed.
Louisiana congressional primaries suspended as a result of Supreme Court ruling, state officials say
ABC News - 17 hours 14 min agoLouisiana's top elected officials say the state's congressional primaries won't be going forward as scheduled in May as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling...
Early voting had been scheduled to begin Saturday in advance of the May 16 primary.
Letitia James The Supreme Court's decision is a cruel blow to our democracy. But our efforts to ensure that every American has the representation and resources they deserve will not stop. The post Letitia James: We Cannot Afford to Abandon the Voting Rights Act appeared first on The Nation .
The organizations that fought for majority-minority districts across the US south are organizing their next steps The voting rights advocates who fought for majority-minority districts across the US south are organizing their next steps after the supreme court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday and eviscerated much of the work of the civil rights era. "I think that it is deeply troubling that in 2026 that many of us have less rights than our grandparents had and that becomes...
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry plans to push back his state's May 16 primary to give state lawmakers time to redraw congressional maps there, after the Supreme Court struck down the current district lines in a decision with far-reaching consequences for control of Congress in 2026 and beyond...
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