The Supreme Court has placed a major case for the next term whether racial redistribution is unconstitutional.
In a scheduling order on Friday night, the High Court asked the parties whether the construction of the second majority-mining house seat of Louisiana violates the 14th or 15th amendments. This question may reduce the efforts to force the states to force the majority-minority Congress districts.
Order is part of a case of a term of 2024 Congress map of Louisiana The Justice decided to catch for logic again. Justice set the deadline for 27 August for the briefs to be filed by the appellants on the question. The answer brief is scheduled to be held on Friday before the start of October 3, 2025.
In June, the Supreme Court ordered a further debate on the Congress map of Louisiana, which was approved by the state’s GOP Legislature and formed a second majority-black district.
One Order From the court released on the last day of 2024, the case was restored to its calendar for its calendar. Justice Clarence Thomas disintegrated by step to give more arguments and said that the court should have decided the case.
The move meant that the map of the state with two majority-black districts would remain intact for now.
The district lines at the center of the dispute were invalidated by a three-judge lower court panel in 2022, biased with a group of self-known “non-African-American voters”, who challenged the map of the house as an unconstitutional seeded Germander.
The map was not prepared earlier by the Republican Legislature led by the Republican of the state in view of the 2020 census. Instead, efforts to re -prepare the district lines of Louisiana, as all state do after census, have resulted in a two -time legal battle before the Supreme Court as a result of a one -year legal battle.
The case faced challenges to the state MPs when trying to follow the Voting Rights Act, which in political lines without much trust in the race, which can run as a similar protection section of the Constitution. In the Supreme Court’s decision, there is a possibility of implications for the balance of power in the House in the mid -term elections of 2026, when Republicans will try to hold their small majority.
Jan Crawford contributed to this report.
