社会学者で活動家のハリー・エドワーズ博士は、最高裁が投票権法を制限したことを受け、選挙区を再編した州の大学に対し、黒人の高校生アスリートがボイコットを行うよう呼びかけたNAACP（全米黒人地位向上協会）の動きについて見解を述べた。
83歳のエドワーズ氏は、アラバマ、フロリダ、テネシー、テキサス、ルイジアナの各州が、黒人が多数を占める選挙区を撤廃する動きに出ていると指摘した。同氏は、この提案がカレッジフットボールとの結びつきが強く、多くのアスリートが黒人である地域を標的にしていると述べた。エドワーズ氏は、考え自体に反対はしていないものの、アスリートを支えるための慎重な計画と、より広範な政治運動の必要性を強調した。
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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a series of recent orders allowing Louisiana and Alabama to redraw congressional maps that eliminate Black opportunity districts. The rulings came in the Louisiana v. Callais case and related Alabama litigation. They mark a sharp shift in the court's approach to voting rights enforcement under the Voting Rights Act.
Thousands gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday to protest recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional districts and to retrace steps from the 1965 civil rights march.
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New congressional maps in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina have split many majority-Black and plurality-Black districts into majority-White areas. The changes follow a Supreme Court decision that weakened Voting Rights Act protections. Republicans say the maps aim to strengthen their position ahead of midterms.
A three-judge federal panel on Tuesday barred Alabama from using a Republican-backed congressional map for the 2026 elections, finding the plan was tainted by intentional race-based discrimination against Black voters. The panel included two judges appointed by President Donald Trump.
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Louisiana Republicans approved a new congressional map that eliminates one of the state's two majority-Black House districts. The change follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that narrowed the Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 unsigned order Tuesday night permitting Alabama to implement a congressional map that eliminates a district held by a Black Democrat. The decision applies and expands the Court's recent ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Tennessee Republicans voted Thursday to pass new congressional maps expected to eliminate the state's only Democratic U.S. House seat. Republican Governor Bill Lee signed the measure into law shortly afterward. The move followed a Supreme Court decision striking down certain majority-black districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.