In Milligan, Alabama effectively asked the Supreme Court to abandon the legal framework governing racial gerrymandering cases brought under the Voting Rights Act, which the Court first announced in Thornburg v. Gingles (1986), and replace it with a new test that would render the act’s safeguards against racial gerrymandering toothless.

The Court noted probable jurisdiction both the state’s and the LDF’s appeals. The cases are consolidated for argument. It will present another opportunity for the Court to address the “race or party” problem endemic in these racial gerrymandering cases.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on a Louisiana congressional redistricting map that created two majority-Black districts in the state rather than just one. The appeal, likely to be argued early next year,

The Supreme Court will hear a Louisiana case this term that impacts how states craft minority voting districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and could determine the political power of Black voters there.

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide the future of Louisiana’s congressional map in a pair of cases about whether the state unconstitutionally discriminated in its second attempt to draw district lines.