New Jersey could join the crop of blue states currently considering new congressional maps in light of the US Supreme Court’s ruling that effectively vanquishes protections for racial minority districts.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill told CNN that “we’ll take the measures we have to take” when asked if the state should redistrict in response to red states’ plans to eliminate minority districts after the SCOTUS ruling, and at President Trump’s urging.

“Right now, we are looking at what’s going on and making sure that people know that the voting system is fair,” said Gov. Sherrill. “If Trump is going to try to attack fair voting across the country, then New Jersey is going to stand up so that we can create, you know, a counter-balance to whatever he’s doing.”

She acknowledged that there were “some constitutional limitations” that would prevent New Jersey from implementing it this year.

New Jersey’s current congressional map that went into effect in 2022 was created by a bipartisan committee, which drew nine districts for Democrats and three for Republicans.

The primaries for the 2026 midterm elections are underway, as Republicans and Democrats fight for control for the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans have a razor-thin margin, by trying to redraw congressional district maps.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled on the Voting Rights Act case, striking down Louisiana’s voting map. Then on Thursday, Louisiana’s governor issued an executive order delaying the state’s House primary elections and requested the Legislature reconvene and pass new congressional maps. On Friday, Tennessee’s governor called for a special session for the state’s lawmakers to consider new House maps.

So, for now, here is a breakdown of states where maps affecting November’s election have already been redone, or where there has been action to make changes.

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals suspended former President Joe Biden administration’s 2023 Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for mifepristone nationwide, Attorney General Liz Murrill announced.

Based on this ruling, prescribers cannot lawfully mail abortion drugs into the state of Louisiana. Now, the in-person dispensing of mifepristone, a prescription used to medically terminate a pregnancy, is again required while litigation continues.

“The Biden abortion cartel facilitated the deaths of thousands of Louisiana babies (and millions in other states) through illegal mail-order abortion pills,” Murrill said.

“Today, that nightmare is over, thanks to the hard work of my office and our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom. I look forward to continuing to defend women and babies as this case continues.”

Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama said on Friday she would summon lawmakers to consider a new congressional map under the newly weakened Voting Rights Act, but acknowledged legislators could act only if the Supreme Court clears the way.

Ms. Ivey’s call for a special session may not affect the 2026 midterm elections, but it was the first step taken by a state not directly affected by this week’s Supreme Court decision that further eroded the law. That decision rejected Louisiana’s congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander.

Alabama has longstanding court battles over its congressional map and whether Black voters have had their power undermined. On Thursday, Ms. Ivey had said adopting a new map was impossible before November, because a federal court order bars the state from using new district lines until after the 2030 census.

Later that day, Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, asked the Supreme Court to let lawmakers revisit the map. Mr. Marshall filed motions in three redistricting cases pending before the court, asking the justices to lift lower court orders preventing that.

In her statement, Ms. Ivey said she wants legislators to be in position to move quickly. She suggested that if the Supreme Court allowed, the state would return to a congressional map previously approved in 2023 and a state senate map approved in 2021.

A pair of unusually heated Georgia Supreme Court elections grew even more consequential on Wednesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically weakened the Voting Rights Act with a 6-3 decision in Louisiana vs. Callais—effectively inviting states to overhaul their election laws and pursue a fresh round of gerrymandering.

Within hours of the ruling, prominent Republicans called for the adoption of new maps that could gut Black political representation in Georgia, which already has a long history of limiting Black voting power.

The Callais decision comes as no surprise to the candidates in Georgia’s May 19 judicial elections, who told Bolts in interviews ahead of the decision that they were preparing for such a ruling, and that they expected it would hand the Georgia Supreme Court, like its counterparts in the rest of the country, greater responsibility on matters of election law.

Two liberal lawyers, former Democratic state Senator Jen Jordan and personal injury attorney Miracle Rankin, are seeking to oust Justices Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel, respectively, and all but Warren agreed to interviews with Bolts. The elections are officially nonpartisan, but the challengers are running with Democratic Party backing, while Governor Brian Kemp and other Republicans have rallied around the incumbents.

In a post-Callais America, Jordan told Bolts, “People are going to have to start bringing more and more of these challenges to the state court system … I’m looking forward at what’s going to be coming down the pike in terms of democracy or election challenges.

“Pro-democracy, pro-people justices—that’s the majority I would like to see,” she said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that states should consider promptly redrawing congressional districts after the Supreme Court’s ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act — a move that would help Republicans gain seats in this year’s midterm elections.

Johnson’s endorsement of last-minute redistricting in the wake of Wednesday’s ruling adds pressure to Republican-led states weighing whether there’s enough time to create new district boundaries and boost the GOP’s chances of maintaining control of the House.

“We want constitutional maps,” Johnson (R-Louisiana) told reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “All states that have unconstitutional maps should look at that very carefully, and I think they should do it before the midterms.”

His home state was the subject of the lawsuit that reshaped how states can consider race when drawing congressional boundaries, which for decades helped voters in the South elect Black Democrats to the House. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) is preparing to suspend primary elections already underway there to draw districts that comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling, according to two people familiar with his plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

The ruling’s practical impact, according to both parties, is that many Democratic-leaning districts drawn to consolidate majority-minority voters can be redrawn to GOP advantage. The vast majority of those districts are in the South.