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Republicans Eye Redistricting in the South, Starting with Louisiana
The state faces a tight window to redraw its congressional maps.
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Voting in Natchitoches, La., on Election Day in 2024.
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Emily Kask for The New York Times
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Emily Cochrane
Reporting from Nashville.
April 29, 2026
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The sweep and impact of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Voting Rights Act may remain uncertain, but the one state clearly affected, Louisiana, faces a very short window to redraw its congressional maps for 2026.
Early voting is set to begin on Saturday, ahead of a May 16 primary date that has captured national attention, as Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican who voted in 2021 to convict President Trump after his second impeachment, tries to stave off two challengers from his right.
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on Wednesday that Louisiana lawmakers had illegally used race to draw a new majority-Black House district in 2024 appeared unambiguous about the state’s current map. But it came four days before the first ballots in Louisiana were to be cast.
Nancy Landry, the secretary of state, said that her office’s lawyers were reviewing the opinion. The state’s attorney general, Liz Murrill, said on Wednesday she believed the Legislature had time to act on a new map. But, she told reporters, “Obviously, those are decisions that need to be made very quickly.”
Louisiana is one of the few states whose legislature is still in session, and a handful of bills had pre-emptively been filed that would allow for a new congressional map to be debated and approved.
But Representative Cleo Fields, a Democrat whose district was at the center of the ruling, warned against moving to redraw the maps ahead of the November elections. He pledged “to evaluate all available legislative responses to this ruling and to restore the full protections,” an indication that any quick move to draw him out of the House would yield a court challenge.
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