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The Supreme Court agreed Monday evening to immediately send its opinion striking down Louisiana’s congressional map to lower courts, rather than waiting 32 days, as would have been routine.<\/p>\n
The court’s landmark opinion last week, which weakened the Voting Rights Act by concluding that one of Louisiana’s majority-Black congressional districts was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, has set off a chaotic scramble in the state.<\/p>\n
Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, delayed the primary for the House races, even with early voting beginning on Saturday, so that the state Legislature could immediately work to redraw the maps. Republicans, who control the Legislature, are expected to try to eliminate at least one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. (Early voting in other races in the state, including votes on constitutional amendments and a hotly contested Republican Senate primary, proceeded.)<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear what impact Monday’s decision to send the case back to lower courts without delay would have on the effort to speed up redistricting. Those steps have been challenged in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
But a group of white voters challenged the Louisiana map and won their case before the Supreme Court. the requested<\/a> The move comes with the belief that technological moves will make it easier to move forward faster, and that the court action removes a barrier to creating a new map.<\/p>\n one in a paragraph<\/a>In the unsigned order, the court explained that “normally,” Supreme Court clerks wait 32 days to send an opinion, to give the losing party time to ask the justices to reconsider the case. it is exceptionally rare<\/a> Once arguments and decisions have been made, the court agrees to rehear a case.<\/p>\n In the Louisiana case, the judges wrote, state officials who defended the map were on the losing side of the case. did not protest<\/a> Request to expedite.<\/p>\n