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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Following the U.S. Supreme Court's April 29, 2026, Callais v. Louisiana decision striking down Louisiana's congressional map as a racial gerrymander (as covered in this series), experts warn the reinterpretation of Voting Rights Act protections could endanger minority representation nationwide. Louisiana has extended suspension of its U.S. House primaries until at least July 2026 amid expectations of a redraw.
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.
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In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's April 29, 2026, decision in Louisiana v. Callais declaring the state's congressional map an unconstitutional racial gerrymander (as covered previously in this series), Louisiana has suspended its upcoming primaries for U.S. House races. The ruling affects one of the state's two Democratic-held majority-Black districts. Other primaries, including U.S. Senate, proceed May 16.
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.
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Rep. Wesley Hunt, a Texas Republican, criticized Democrats during a House Judiciary Committee hearing for comparing voter identification requirements to the Jim Crow era, arguing the analogy minimizes the historical reality of legalized segregation and racial terror.