Secret Assets Owners
  • Investing
  • World News
  • Politics
  • Stock
  • Editor’s Pick
Politics

Supreme Court hears pivotal Louisiana election map case ahead of 2026 midterms

by March 24, 2025
March 24, 2025

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether Louisiana lawmakers can use race as a factor when drawing congressional maps, a closely watched case that could impact voters nationwide in the 2026 midterms.

At issue is whether the state’s congressional map, updated twice since the 2020 census, is an illegal racial gerrymander. It has faced two federal court challenges – first, for diluting minority voting power under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and most recently, for potentially violating the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The high court, which agreed to take up the case last fall, is expected to hand down its decision by late June. 

During oral arguments, the justices focused closely on whether Louisiana’s redistricting efforts were narrowly tailored enough to meet constitutional requirements and whether race was used in a way that violates the law, as plaintiffs have alleged.

Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga argued that the state’s latest map protected political stability, including preserving leadership positions like the U.S. House speaker and majority leader.

‘I want to emphasize that the larger picture here is important – because in an election year we faced the prospect of a federal court-drawn map that placed in jeopardy the speaker of the House, the House majority leader and our representative on the Appropriations Committee,’ Aguiñaga said. ‘And so in light of those facts, we made the politically rational decision: we drew our own map to protect them.’

Louisiana’s congressional map has twice been challenged in federal court since it was updated in the wake of the 2020 census, which found that the state’s Black residents now totaled one-third of Louisiana’s total population. 

The first redistricting map, which included just one district where Black voters held the majority, was invalidated by a federal court (and subsequently, by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals) in 2022. 

Both courts sided with the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP and other plaintiffs, who argued that the map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of Black voters in the state. 

Lawmakers were ordered by the court to adopt by January 2024 a new state redistricting map. That map, S.B. 8, was passed and included the creation of a second majority-Black voting district in the state. 

But S.B. 8 was almost immediately challenged by a group of non-Black plaintiffs in court as well, after they claimed issue with a new district that stretched some 250 miles from Louisiana’s northwest corner of Shreveport to Baton Rouge, in the state’s southeast. 

They argued in the lawsuit that the state violated the equal protection clause by relying too heavily on race to draw the maps, and created a ‘sinuous and jagged second majority-Black district based on racial stereotypes, racially ‘Balkanizing’ a 250-mile swath of Louisiana.’

The Supreme Court agreed last November to take up the case, though it paused consideration of the arguments until after the 2024 elections.

Meanwhile, Louisiana officials argued in court filings that non-Black voters failed to show direct harm required for equal protection claims or prove race was the main factor in redrawing the map.

They also stressed that the Supreme Court should clarify how states should proceed under this ‘notoriously unclear area of the law’ that pits Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act against equal protections, describing them as two ‘competing demands.’ 

Officials have cited frustrations over repeatedly redrawing maps, and the prospect of being ordered back to the drawing board once again, and asked the court to ‘put an end to the extraordinary waste of time and resources that plagues the States after every redistricting cycle.’ 

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS
previous post
SCOOP: House to hold hearings next week on ‘activist judges’ blocking Trump agenda
next post
Trump-district Democrat warns party ‘in trouble’ ahead of 2026 midterms

You may also like

Far-left congresswoman revives ousted ‘Squad’ Dem’s reparations push...

May 15, 2025

Rubio doubts ‘anything productive’ will happen in Ukraine...

May 15, 2025

House Dems open investigation into Trump’s acceptance of...

May 15, 2025

US military would be unleashed on enemy drones...

May 15, 2025

UAE’s president bestows highest civilian honor on Trump

May 15, 2025

Trump makes historic UAE visit as first US...

May 15, 2025

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts reins in Sotomayor...

May 15, 2025

Dems divided on Trump’s executive order aimed at...

May 15, 2025

Biden’s pandemic playbook failed. Trump just offered a...

May 15, 2025

GOP reps, advocacy group to target competitive House...

May 15, 2025
Join The Exclusive Subscription Today And Get Premium Articles For Free


Your information is secure and your privacy is protected. By opting in you agree to receive emails from us. Remember that you can opt-out any time, we hate spam too!

Recent Posts

  • US Withdrawal from the World Trade Organization Would Be an Epic Mistake

    May 15, 2025
  • Far-left congresswoman revives ousted ‘Squad’ Dem’s reparations push for Black Americans: ‘We are awake’

    May 15, 2025
  • Rubio doubts ‘anything productive’ will happen in Ukraine peace talks without Trump, Putin

    May 15, 2025
  • House Dems open investigation into Trump’s acceptance of $400 million jet from Qatar

    May 15, 2025
  • US military would be unleashed on enemy drones on the homeland if bipartisan bill passes

    May 15, 2025
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 SecretAssetsOwners.com All Rights Reserved.


Back To Top
Secret Assets Owners
  • Investing
  • World News
  • Politics
  • Stock
  • Editor’s Pick