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SCOTUS just unleashed a gerrymandering dragon

The Court's 6-3 decision gutting the Voting Rights Act will reshape the nation's political map in dramatic fashion

Published May 1, 2026 1:30PM (EDT)

So much for the mid-decade redistricting wars ending in a tie. 

On April 21, Democrats engineered themselves a 10-1 gerrymander in Virginia, a pickup of four seats. Party leaders declared it payback and boasted about their new fighting spirit.

Political pundits declared the mid-decade gerrymandering war had been fought to a stalemate, or that it had even backfired on Republicans. Five new red seats in Texas, balanced by five blue ones in California. Four new Democratic seats in Virginia to counterbalance Ohio, Missouri and North Carolina. No harm, no foul!

Then the big shoe dropped. The Supreme Court, in a 6-3, party-line decision in Callais v. Louisiana, struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and installed new limits on the Voting Rights Act that will make it all but impossible to challenge districts that dilute minority voters. A report by Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter found this could erase up to 19 House seats held by Black and Latino members, largely across the South and Southwest. 

The Callais decision will have huge repercussions. It will decimate minority representation in Congress, potentially wipe as many as 200 state legislative districts held by Blacks and Latinos off the board, and perhaps most insidiously, impact city councils, school boards, judicial races and tiny municipal boards across the South that might not get any media coverage at all.

The Callais decision will have huge repercussions. It will decimate minority representation in Congress, potentially wipe as many as 200 state legislative districts held by Blacks and Latinos off the board, and perhaps most insidiously, impact city councils, school boards, judicial races and tiny municipal boards across the South that might........

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