SCOTUS Allows Louisiana Redistricting to Take Effect Immediately

The Supreme Court granted Louisiana's request to let last week's major voting-rights ruling take effect immediately, enabling the state to pause its primary to redraw congressional districts for the midterms and potentially alter two majority-Black districts. The ruling relaxed protections under the Voting Rights Act by allowing states to cite partisan interests in defending against minority-vote dilution. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the bypass of normal procedures in a dissent, while Justice Alito defended the decision; Sotomayor and Kagan dissented in the prior ruling without joining Jackson.