{"id":2499042,"date":"2025-10-15T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-may-spark-new-redistricting-fight-in-louisiana-case\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:43:12","slug":"supreme-court-may-spark-new-redistricting-fight-in-louisiana-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-may-spark-new-redistricting-fight-in-louisiana-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court may spark new redistricting fight in Louisiana case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-may-spark-new-redistricting-fight-in-louisiana-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2499042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a key case, *Louisiana v. Callais*, involving Louisiana&#8217;s creation of a second majority-minority congressional district based on race, challenging weather it violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments. Central to the case is whether to uphold or overturn the *Thornburg v. Gingles* (1986) precedent, which established criteria under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) for when race-based redistricting is lawful. This precedent has substantially influenced redistricting in Southern states for decades.<\/p>\n<p>If the Court strikes down *Gingles*, it could lead to major changes in how congressional districts are drawn, perhaps affecting as many as 10 Southern states like Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. GOP-led states might redraw districts to reduce the number of minority-influenced seats,while states like Florida have announced readiness to undertake redistricting if the ruling changes. Although this could reduce certain types of lawsuits over redistricting, litigation over district maps would likely continue.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana and the U.S. Department of Justice both argue for overturning *Gingles*, seeking clearer, race-neutral standards that would prevent race-predominant districts. opponents, including voter coalitions, argue the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >current standards protect minority voting rights<\/a> and comply with constitutional guarantees, citing a recent related Supreme Court ruling that upheld *Gingles*. The case carries wide implications for voting rights, redistricting, and race-conscious policies, and a decision is expected in the coming months.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Supreme Court could kickstart another round of redistricting with Louisiana race-based districting case<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2369728\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> will hear a second round of oral arguments on Wednesday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/louisiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louisiana<\/a> redistricting case over race-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/redistricting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">congressional districting<\/a> laws, which could lead to as many as 10 southern states redrawing their maps.<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em>, the high court is evaluating whether Louisiana&rsquo;s creation of &ldquo;a second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-will-examine-racial-redistricting-law-in-coming-term\/\" title=\"... will examine racial ... law in coming term\">majority-minority congressional district violates<\/a> the Fourteenth or Fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution.&rdquo; The justices&rsquo; decision is expected to have widespread implications for redistricting, potentially tossing out the parameters for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eight-cases-to-watch-in-the-new-supreme-court-term\/\" title=\"Eight ...s to watch in the new ... term\">race-based legal challenges<\/a> of congressional maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act established by the Supreme Court&rsquo;s 1986 ruling in <em>Thornburg v. Gingles<\/em>, which has played a significant role in redistricting policies for decades.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3849538\/samuel-alito-question-parental-rights-supreme-court-gender-ideology\/\">Alito concerned courts are avoiding question of parental rights over transitioning genders in schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3849366\/supreme-court-denies-alex-jones-appeal-defamation-judgment\/\">Supreme Court denies Alex Jones&#8217;s appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3845379\/supreme-court-asked-weigh-in-schools-secretly-transition-students\/\">Supreme Court asked to weigh in on whether schools can secretly transition students<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ending-section-2-requirement-affects-southern-states\">Ending Section 2 requirement affects Southern states<\/h2>\n<p>If the Supreme Court opts to toss the <em>Gingles<\/em> parameters for redistricting lawsuits and ultimately rules that Louisiana&rsquo;s creation of a second black-majority congressional district, to comply with Section 2 of the VRA, is unconstitutional, it would have ramifications far beyond the Pelican State.<\/p>\n<p>Motivated by lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits, various southern states, including Alabama and Mississippi, have drawn congressional districts to comply with the <em>Gingles<\/em> standard of allowing minority groups to select their preferred candidate.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis by the left-wing group Fair Fight Action <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.website-files.com\/664f769adc5cc1607d32b366\/68e58681b33c082c686a91bf_a9a4cc027348464928d3c5d4f61f1f4c_2025%20REPORT_SCOTUS_VRA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> that <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">if the <em>Gingles<\/em> holding is overruled, as many as 19 Democratic congressional seats throughout the South could become targets of redistricting to be drawn into either safe Re<\/span>publican seats or competitive seats.<\/p>\n<p>The group identified two seats in Alabama, three seats in Florida, two seats in Georgia, two seats in Louisiana, one seat in Missouri, one seat in North Carolina, one seat in South Carolina, one seat in Tennessee, and five seats in Texas that are VRA-complaint seats under <em>Gingles<\/em> holding, which GOP legislatures could redraw if the Supreme Court tosses its current Section 2 framework.<\/p>\n<p>Pushed by President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders, several states have engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-and-california-battle-over-redistricting-advantages\/\" title=\"Texas and California battle over ... advantages\">mid-decade redistricting efforts<\/a>, aiming to pass more partisan maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. While Democrats have attempted to counter the GOP changes with their own redraws, including in California, their options are more limited.<\/p>\n<p>If the Supreme Court overturns the <em>Gingles<\/em> holding for redistricting under the Voting Rights Act, it could open the floodgates to more GOP mid-decade redistricting efforts. While the decision to redraw districts would be up to each state, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has already <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RonDeSantis\/status\/1978111094850724145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> that if the Supreme Court strikes down the current holding on Section 2, &ldquo;it will necessitate new congressional redistricting in a number of states, including Florida.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Overruling <em>Gingles<\/em> would likely curb lawsuits filed against states&rsquo; congressional maps, but such a ruling is unlikely to end litigation over how maps are drawn, Carrie Severino, president of the conservative advocacy group Judicial Crisis Network, told the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ll find other things to litigate about, but it still improves the situation if there are clear standards based on the actual text of the Voting Rights Act,&rdquo; Severino said. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-louisiana-and-doj-want-section-2-requirement-tossed\">Louisiana and DOJ want Section 2 requirement tossed<\/h2>\n<p>In the case to be reargued on Wednesday, Louisiana has asked for clarity on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The state already had to redraw its congressional map after a federal court ordered the creation of the second-black majority district, which is now at issue before the high court.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Louisiana&rsquo;s experience suggests that&nbsp;<em>Gingles<\/em>&nbsp;cannot be reformed and should be overruled. But, in all events, the States desperately need clarity that so far has been absent from this Court&rsquo;s redistricting cases,&rdquo; Louisiana&nbsp;Attorney General Liz&nbsp;Murrill said in the brief filed to the Supreme Court. &ldquo;Absent that clarity, nothing will change in the extraordinary expenditure of time, money, and resources that the States (and the courts) face after every redistricting cycle.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana has taken the position that <em>Gingles<\/em> should be overruled and the state&rsquo;s creation of a second black-majority district should be ruled as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You have states like Louisiana saying, &lsquo;Please just tell us what standard we&rsquo;re supposed to follow,&rsquo; but when you have competing lines of precedent that different judges balance differently, then states have no predictability as to how any one map is going to fare in the courts,&rdquo; Severino said.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has also argued to the justices for the current <em>Gingles<\/em> framework be tossed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Properly construed, Section 2&rsquo;s &lsquo;results&rsquo; test should never have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-admin-asks-supreme-court-to-strike-race-based-redistricting\/\" title=\"Trump admin asks ... to strike ...\">compelled race-predominant districting<\/a>. But that has been the consequence of misguided applications of the vague framework for vote-dilution claims established in&nbsp;<em>Thornburg v. Gingles<\/em>,&rdquo; the DOJ&rsquo;s brief to the high court said. &ldquo;This Court should modify that judge-made framework to address the constitutional problems that it has created.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court overruling <em>Gingles<\/em> would likely be more in line with recent rulings by the current makeup of the high court, where the majority has opted to remove race-based factors in multiple, unrelated laws, instead looking at laws that don&rsquo;t factor in race.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The <em>Gingles<\/em> precedent goes contrary to the line of cases like <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2578872\/supreme-court-bans-affirmative-action-in-ruling-against-race-conscious-college-admissions-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Students for Fair Admissions<\/a><\/em>, requiring the use of race-neutral factors. That case dealt with education, but in this case, the same principle applies in voting. The Gingles requirement for redistricting to be done in a very race-conscious way doesn&rsquo;t fit well with those precedents,&rdquo; Severino told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, referring to a Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action in college admissions.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-voter-coalition-seeks-to-uphold-gingles-holding\">Voter coalition seeks to uphold <em>Gingles<\/em> holding<\/h2>\n<p>While Louisiana has opted not to defend its congressional map with a second black-majority district, a coalition of voters supporting its creation argued in a brief to the high court that the district comports &ldquo;with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment guarantees of equal voting rights and the VRA&rsquo;s requirements.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The coalition points to the Supreme Court&rsquo;s 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2585828\/supreme-court-news-justices-reject-alabama-gop-congressional-map-under-voting-rights-act-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruling in <em>Allen v. Milligan<\/em><\/a>, which upheld the <em>Gingles<\/em> framework for Section 2 challenges. The same nine justices currently on the high court decided that case.<\/p>\n<p>While the justices&rsquo; focus on the constitutionality of creating the second black-majority district for the second round of arguments points toward this case being the best chance for <em>Gingles<\/em> to fall, the recent ruling upholding <em>Gingles<\/em> serves as a warning that the high court could elect to maintain the precedent.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3829193\/eight-cases-to-watch-new-supreme-court-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EIGHT CASES TO WATCH IN THE NEW SUPREME COURT TERM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s premature to say it&rsquo;s a dead man walking, because we&rsquo;ve seen them take the opportunity where they could have done it and not eliminated <em>Gingles<\/em>,&rdquo; Severino said. &ldquo;That said, the fact that they asked for rehearing suggests to me that they have more of an appetite for reconsidering some of the erroneous previous precedents in this case.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Oral arguments at the Supreme Court in <em>Louisiana v. Callais <\/em>begin at 10 a.m., with a decision in the case expected in the coming months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court may trigger new redistricting in South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2499043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25135471977857-1.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32869,6100,16985,32275,32570],"class_list":["post-2499042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-legal-battle","tag-louisiana","tag-redistricting","tag-supreme-court","tag-voting-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25135471977857-1.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499046,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499042\/revisions\/2499046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}