Authored by Amy Howe via scotusblog.com,

The Supreme Court on Monday nightgranted a requestto immediately finalize its opinion inLouisiana v. Callais, in which it struck down that state’s congressional map, to allow Louisiana to draw a new map in time for the 2026 elections.

[ZH: Democrats are raging as] that map isexpected to favor Republicans,who currently hold four of the state’s six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives but could pick up one or even two more under a revised map.

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The court’s decision drewsharp criticismfromJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the lone dissenter. Jackson argued that the court’s ruling“has spawned chaos in the State of Louisiana.”

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, wrote aconcurring opinion that responded to Jackson with equally sharp words, countering thather rhetoric “lacks restraint.”

🚨 JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HAS HAD IT WITH KETANJI BROWN JACKSONJoined by Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Alito EVISCERATED Jackson for her combative and "insulting" dissent:"Instead the dissent offers 2 reasons for its proposed course of action. One is TRIVIAL at best, and…pic.twitter.com/u4idr8ALPT

In anunsigned, one-paragraph order, the court explained that, to give the losing party time to ask the justices to reconsider their decision, the Supreme Court’s clerk normally waits 32 days after a decision is issued before sending a copy of the opinion and the judgment to the lower court.

But, the court wrote, in this case the Black voters defending the map at the center of the dispute “have not expressed any intent to ask this Court to reconsider its judgment.”

The court issuedits decisioninLouisiana v. Callaison Wednesday, April 29. By a vote of 6-3, it invalidated a map adopted by the Louisiana Legislature in 2024, which created two majority-Black districts after two lower courts ruled that an earlier map with just one majority-Black district likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting.

Source: ZeroHedge News