The Supreme Court will not decide right now whether Louisiana violated the Constitution when it enacted a congressional map last year that created a second majority-Black district. In a surprise […]

The U.S. Supreme Court decided to delay its ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map and will rehear the case later. Justice Clarence Thomas disagreed, saying the Court is required to act quickly and warned that current interpretations of the Voting Rights Act may force states to draw race-based districts that violate the Constitution.

Louisiana argued that it was caught in an impossible position: At first, a federal court ruled that the state had likely violated the Voting Rights Act by drawing only one majority Black district out of six.