US supreme court rules Louisiana must redraw its congressional map in landmark case

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Wed 29 Apr 2026 10.12 EDT
Last modified on Wed 29 Apr 2026 10.14 EDT



The 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, was a thorny question of how much lawmakers are allowed to consider race when they redraw districts to ensure that Black voters are adequately represented. The supreme court initially heard oral arguments in the case last March, but took the unusual step of asking lawyers to re-argue the case last fall. In setting the case for a re-argument, the justices raised the stakes of the case, asking lawyers to focus on whether section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was constitutional.

The decision comes after years of legal wrangling over the boundaries of the map.

After the 2020 census, the Republican-controlled state legislature drew a new congressional map in which Black voters comprised a majority in just one district despite being about a third of the state’s population. A group of Black voters sued the state in 2022 under the Voting Rights Act, arguing that the map diluted the influence of Black voters in the state by packing them into one district and spreading them out over the remaining ones.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling

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Link to RULING - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-109_21o3.pdf

[EuterpeThelo]

1. Man

Fuck these corrupt criminals. If we ever somehow manage to defeat their cheating, we need to IMMEDIATELY balance the court by increasing the number to match the number of circuits, institute term limits and set up a rotating bench of federal judges.

[Akakoji]

2. This is beyond FUCT UP

We are not amused

[-misanthroptimist]

3. SCOTUS lacks any legitimacy

Sure, it still has power, but it no longer stands for justice under the Constitution. It is 2/3rds partisan hacks that will do what their partisanship demands.

When we win everything in 2028, SCOTUS reform (including one or two Impeachments and Removals) should be at the very top of the agenda, along with expansion.

[angrychair]

4. Let me see if I understand this correctly

So if a Republican state specifically re-creates it's districts to create a single Black district it's bad

But if it says it's "partisan" and just dilute Black and Hispanic votes to the point their votes are meaningless, that's legal?

So is it now legal to arrest Black people standing inline to vote for "loitering"? Bringing all the Jim Crow laws back?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. They don't have to worry about arresting Black voters, or the old Jim Crow laws, they just dilute their votes

They just make sure "inner city" votes are overwhelmed by suburban votes - and they're allowed to do that for partisan reasons. "Oh, you say that those Democratic votes we just swamped were mostly Black? Why, I had no idea."

[Festivito]

7. I too wonder if I understand it.

Actual packing a minority into one district is okay as long as no one proves that was the intention.

So instead of two or three competitive representations out of six, the minority gets one representative sent to washington. The partisan gerrymanders get five out of six. As long as they don't make it look like, it was intentional.

[pat_k]

5. So, consider race when packing a district to dilute vote elsewhere, but don't to ensure representation?? WTF

[GreenWave]

8. They sure move fast to help their favorite pedophile.

And very slow if it may hurt him.

[FakeNoose]

9. Louisiana Congressional District map - the one that's being redrawn

From Wikipedia:



Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana%27s_congressional_districts

The US Congressional Districts of Louisiana have evolved over the last 30 years or so ... please see the Wiki article maps showing the changes that have happened over the years.

Take a good look at the red District #4 - that's Mike Johnson's District, and tell me that's not gerrymandered as all hell. (It is!) The ones they are mainly arguing about are #6 and #2 where concentrations of the Black voters reside. If all of the Black residents were shoved into 2 Districts, then they can't go and spoil it for the White Folks in the other Districts.

If this isn't gerrymandering then I don't know what is.