A procedural move at the Supreme Court just triggered an unusually sharp public clash between two justices, the Hill reports. On Monday, the court took the rare step of immediately sending back its recent Louisiana redistricting case to a lower court, bypassing the usual 32-day wait and clearing the way for the state to quickly draw a new congressional map before this year's elections. Louisiana had requested the court hasten its ruling, and the court agreed.
That accelerated timeline prompted a pointed dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who said the majority was casting off normal limits and warned the ruling had already "spawned chaos" in Louisiana's elections. She noted the high court has only expedited a ruling in such a way just two other times in the past quarter-century, the Guardian reports. Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, fired back, labeling part of her critique "baseless and insulting" and arguing that delaying the case would lock in an unconstitutional map for 2026.
The dispute comes days after the court, in a 6-3 decision, struck down Louisiana's second majority-Black district and narrowed the reach of the Voting Rights Act. With Louisiana Republicans now poised to redraw lines that could add a GOP House seat (or even two, per SCOTUSblog), other Southern states—including Alabama and Tennessee—are pressing the court for similar opportunities to revise their maps before November. (The AP runs down the current state of redistricting efforts.)
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