SCOTUS To Hear Case On Race-Based Congressional Districts

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JUST IN: SCOTUS To Hear Case On Race-Based Congressional Districts

Published 20 hours ago

on August 2, 2025

By Cullen McCue

The U.S. Supreme Court indicated Friday that it will consider outlawing the use of race in drawing congressional maps, setting the stage for a potentially landmark decision that has the ability to fundamentally reshape the nation’s legislative maps and have a significant impact on congressional elections going forward.

Expanding upon a Louisiana-based case that is already on the docket, justices said they will consider arguments that the 1965 Voting Rights Act no longer provides a legitimate basis for map creators to intentionally craft majority Black or majority Hispanic districts. The ruling could also impact state and local legislative maps.

As of the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. House had 11 majority Black and 31 majority Hispanic districts. Ahead of the 2024 election cycle, the high court issued a ruling on the issue in Allen v. Milligan, a case brought after the Republican-controlled legislature drew a congressional map that left just one majority black district in the state.

Civil rights groups, including the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, challenged the map, arguing it violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA)  by diluting Black voting power through “packing” Black voters into one district and “cracking” others across multiple districts.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Court upheld a lower court’s decision that found Alabama’s map had likely violated the VRA. The ruling required Alabama to draw a second majority black district, resulting in a Democrat pickup in 2024.

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Upcoming SCOTUS Case Could Reshape Redistricting As We Know It

By: Shawn Fleetwood
August 08, 2025

The ideal outcome in Louisiana v. Callais would be for SCOTUS to definitively declare that ‘race should never be a factor in redistricting,’ Hans von Spakovsky said.

While the battle between Republican- and Democrat-led states to redistrict ahead of the 2026 midterm continues to heat up, a case with major implications for the issue is quietly flying under the radar at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Late last week, the justices issued an order in a case known as Louisiana v. Callais. Set to be decided in the court’s 2025-2026 term, the matter revolves around a dispute involving Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the alleged prioritization of race when drafting Louisiana’s most recent congressional map.

In its order, the high court signaled that it would offer a definitive ruling on if the use of race when creating legislative districts violates the U.S. Constitution. More specifically, the justices instructed parties in the case to file supplemental briefs addressing the question of “[w]hether [Louisiana’s] intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments …”

Speaking with The Federalist, Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky noted how the Louisiana case offers the Supreme Court a significant opportunity to address longstanding confusion within the judicial system on how to deal with race in the redistricting process.

“If they come down the correct way … the huge litigation fights that seem to happen after almost every redistricting process will diminish greatly,” von Spakovsky told The Federalist.

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https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/upcoming-scotus-case-could-reshape-redistricting-as-we-know-it/

[Fishrrman]

I'll reckon the odds are fair-to-middlin' that the same Court that could toss out Roe might also be inclined to toss out much of the Civil Rights Act.

And that's a GOOD thing.

(the fact that they even agreed to hear this case may portend the outcome)