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Kamala Harris comes out swinging for Supreme Court expansion to take down ‘red state cheating’

Former VP says GOP is ‘back-dooring racism through politics’ as she calls for Supreme Court and Electoral College reform

The Independent UK

SCOTUS could erase Black representation

Local elections are where the Callais decision could be felt most

Salon

Voting Rights Act ruling is ‘red meat’ to Republicans in south, says Black lawmaker targeted by gerrymander

Mississippi politicians are threatening to redraw the district of Bennie Thompson, the state’s lone Democrat in Congress

The Guardian - US

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Republican redistricting effort is ‘evil incarnate’, Stacey Abrams tells new Guardian podcast

In interview with Stateside with Kai and Carter, Abrams says Republicans have raised the stakes beyond party lines

The Guardian - US

The GOP still has a voter problem

Legal wins won’t matter if Republicans can’t get people to vote for them

Salon

Racial gerrymandering may be here to stay

The outrage was swift and severe when the U.S. Supreme Court, by an ideologically divided 6-3 vote, recently struck down Louisiana’s majority Black congressional district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Critics lambasted the court for gutting the Voting Rights Act, the federal law that had until recently garnered strong bipartisan…

The Conversation

The next Voting Rights Act must outlaw gerrymandering

The supreme court has gutted one of the strongest federal tools we had against the most effective weapon in US politics

The Guardian - US

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The KBJ Delay in Callais

Who is at fault for the rush to judgment in Louisiana?

Reason

NAACP Seek To Recall Callais Judgment So It Can Seek Reconsideration

The time to make this request was when the Plaintiffs moved to issue the judgment forthwith.

Reason

Voting Rights Act ruling could change representation on city councils, school boards across Texas

The 1965 federal law helped Latino and Black voters gain representation in city and school boards across Texas but now that could change.

The Texas Tribune

The Partisan Asymmetry In Callais

Justice Jackson never countenances that her decision to "run out the clock" might be partisan.

Reason

The supreme court trusts America not to be racist. I don’t

The Callais decision is predicated on the idea that American leaders will act justly on their own. That premise has already been proven hollow

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court Eviscerates Voting Rights Act: 'Demolition' Completed

A 6–3 US Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v Callais has weakened a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, shaking the legal foundations of federal voting protections.

International Business Times UK

5th Circuit Panel Blocks 2023 Mifepristone Telemedicine Approval

This case will go to the Supreme Court very quickly.

Reason

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The Guardian - US

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

Salon

SCOTUS unleashes gerrymandering dragon

The Court's 6-3 decision gutting the Voting Rights Act will reshape the nation's political map in dramatic fashion

The Guardian - US

Push for state-level voting rights acts renewed after supreme court ruling

Nine states have a version of voting rights act and 11 more, including several in the south, have introduced bills to protect voters in absence of federal protections

The Guardian - US

The supreme court’s voting rights decision wasn’t about law – it was about politics

This court has impaled one of the most important laws in American history, with disastrous consequences for multiracial democracy

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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.,…

The Guardian - US

Conservative justices actually consider race – except in correcting inequality

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

Reason

Callais Right Away!

It makes no difference when the Court issues its judgment.

The Guardian - US

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 Mary Sue

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 Texas Tribune

Supreme Court voting rights ruling empowers Texas Republicans to redraw more partisan maps

Texas lawmakers will be able to draw more aggressively partisan maps for the state House, Senate and education board when they return in 2027.

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…

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