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5th Circuit Panel Blocks 2023 Mifepristone Telemedicine Approval

This case will go to the Supreme Court very quickly.

Reason

Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office

Louisiana Republicans have eliminated the office an exoneree was set to take after being overwhelmingly elected to the New Orleans-based seat

The Independent UK

Voting rights groups sue to block Louisiana from suspending primary elections

State’s governor has ordered congressional primary halted until state can redraw districts and dilute Black vote

The Guardian - US

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Voter groups challenge order to postpone House primaries in Louisiana

A group of Louisiana voters and voting rights groups filed a state lawsuit Friday challenging Gov. Jeff Landry’s executive order to postpone the state’s May 16 primaries for the House. The lawsuit seeks to block Landry’s move, arguing in part it exceeds the governor’s authority to invoke emergency power to…

Roll Call

Redistricting decision hamstrings potential congressional response

The Supreme Court’s decision limiting the Voting Rights Act appears to hamper Congress from passing legislation to restore the law’s protections for minority voters when states draw new congressional districts, legal experts say. In the hours after Wednesday’s 6-3 decision invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.,…

Roll Call

Conservative justices actually consider race – except in correcting inequality

In Louisiana v Callais, the supreme court has openly considered white Republicans in partisan redistricting

The Guardian - US

Callais Right Away!

It makes no difference when the Court issues its judgment.

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Hillary Clinton Calls Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling "Overlooks Reality For a Self-Serving Right-Wing Fantasy"

Hillary Clinton accused the Supreme Court's conservative majority of demolishing what remained of the Voting Rights Act, warning that Republican-led states are already moving to redraw congressional maps in ways that could dilute Black voting power.

Latin Times

What is the US supreme court’s voting rights ruling about and will it affect midterms?

Rightwing justices in Louisiana v Callais led 6-3 vote to redraw congressional maps in blow to Voting Rights Act

The Guardian - US

Louisiana governor postpones House primaries after Supreme Court ruling

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday postponed his state’s May 16 primaries for the House, one day after the Supreme Court struck down the state’s congressional map as an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander.” “Allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate the…

Roll Call

The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act and Louisiana’s Black voters are the first casualty

The Supreme Court just delivered a crushing blow to the Voting Rights Act, and Louisiana’s Black voters are feeling the impact first. According to The Guardian, in a 6-3 decision split along partisan lines, the court effectively dismantled Section 2 of the landmark 1965 law, the last stronghold preventing racial…

The Mary Sue

Louisiana halts House elections after Supreme Court map ruling

The delay gives the Legislature time to draw a new map, Gov. Landry says.

Axios

Louisiana primaries suspended by governor after Supreme Court redistricting ruling

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The Independent UK

Louisiana Faces Election Shake-Up After Supreme Court Weakens Voting Rights Act

Louisiana has suspended its May congressional primaries after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's majority-Black congressional district, forcing officials to halt elections that were days away from early voting.

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The Guardian - US

Louisiana primaries will proceed with US House races on ballot but votes ‘will not be counted’, secretary of state says – as it happened

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The Independent UK

Louisiana to suspend early voting after Supreme Court ruled its election maps unconstitutional

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’

The Conversation

Supreme Court ruling: The latest in history of diminishing minority voting rights

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section 2, prohibited any discriminatory voting practice or election rule that results in less opportunity for minority groups…

International Business Times UK

Supreme Court Ruling Sparks Outrage as Justices Dismantle Core Voting Protections in Landmark Louisiana Case

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Louisiana will have to redraw their congressional districts in a key decision that effectively guts the Voting Rights Act (VCA).

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Reason

SCOTUS Narrows the Reach of the Voting Rights Act

Plus: The Supreme Court says “demands for a charity’s private member or donor information” raises First Amendment problems.

The Guardian - US

Louisiana postpones primaries as states rush to redraw districts after supreme court ruling

More governors call for special sessions following supreme court’s decision severely weakening Voting Rights Act

Reason

Edited Version of Louisiana v. Callais

For the 2026 Barnett/Blackman supplement.

Latin Times

Obama, Newsom, Pelosi, AOC and More Democrats Slam Supreme Court Ruling on Louisiana Districts as Threat to Fair Representation

A sweeping U.S. Supreme Court decision weakening a core provision of the Voting Rights Act has triggered immediate and forceful reactions from Democratic leaders, who warn the ruling could reshape electoral maps nationwide and erode minority voting power ahead of upcoming elections.

Roll Call

GOP lawmakers call for redistricting after Supreme Court ruling

A Supreme Court decision Wednesday invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map and paring back the Voting Rights Act prompted some Republicans to call for redistricting in other states — even ahead of this year’s midterm elections. The dissenters in the 6-3 decision warned that it would allow states with residential segregation and…

The Conversation

Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling makes it harder to protect minority voting power and alters the landscape of future elections

In a major ruling that would permit weakening the voting power of minorities in the United States, the Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, struck down a Black-majority district in Louisiana’s congressional map as “an unconstitutional gerrymander” and altered the court’s interpretation of the Voting Rights Act.

The Independent UK

Louisiana must redraw congressional map in landmark Supreme Court ruling

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