The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act last week has spurred lawmakers in Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama to begin a mid-decade redistricting process aimed at dismantling congressional districts designed to allow minority voters to elect their own representatives.
But voting rights advocates and election law experts say the most consequential impacts of the decision in Louisiana v. Callais is likely to come well after this year’s midterm elections — and, at the state and local level, those experts fear an impending catastrophe for minority elected officials.
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