Supreme Court applies Louisiana ruling to reshape Mississippi voting case
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson protested the Supreme Court’s choice to use their current ruling in a Louisiana gerrymandering case to instruct decrease courts on how to outline the Voting Rights Act, a transfer that might wipe out earlier authorized victories for voting rights teams.
The Court on Monday despatched a Mississippi case again down to US District Court “for further consideration” following their ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, who rejected race-based gerrymandering.
“This case presents only the question of Section 2’s private enforceability, which our decision in Louisiana v. Callais … did not address,” Jackson dissented, referencing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. “Thus I see no basis for vacating the lower court’s judgment.”
The Supreme Court final month restricted the scope of part 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which restricts how states draw districts affecting minority voters, in its ruling within the case of Louisiana v. Shut up.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc by way of Getty Images)
Louisiana v. Callais centered on whether or not Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which had added a second majority-Black district, amounted to an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson provides a joint lecture, as a part of the Flannery Lecture collection, on the Ceremonial Courtroom on the US Courthouse on March 9, 2026, in Washington, DC (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post)
Although the justices acknowledged that compliance with the Voting Rights Act will be thought of by states as a compelling curiosity in redistricting, they mentioned that it didn’t require Louisiana to add the creation of a second, majority Black district, siding with a decrease courtroom that had additionally blocked the state’s use of the map.
JUDGES SAY THEY’LL REDRAW LOUISIANA CONGRESSIONAL MAP THEMSELVES IF LAWMAKERS CAN’T
The Supreme Court constructing is seen in Washington, DC (AP/Jon Elswick)
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The excessive courtroom’s ruling in that case may set off a brand new wave of authorized challenges over congressional boundaries and make it more durable for plaintiffs to problem the maps in query, because it requires them to show a racially discriminatory motive.
Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.
