As Ed noted earlier today, Louisiana is wasting no time responding the the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday regarding its House districts. Today, Gov. Jeff Landry suspended the House primaries which were scheduled for next month.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) on Thursday suspended next month’s House primary elections so state lawmakers can pass a new congressional map first, as states face pressure from Republican leaders to redraw districts in time for the midterms.
His executive order followed a Supreme Court decision Wednesday that found Louisiana had unlawfully discriminated by race when it created a second majority-Black congressional district under legal pressure. A new Louisiana map would position Republicans to gain one or two seats in the midterms.
President Trump called on Tennessee to follow suit and it looks like that is already underway.
President Donald Trump said he had a “good conversation” with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee about corrections to the state’s congressional map following a Supreme Court decision impacting voting rights.
Trump said all other state representatives promised to correct the map as well…
In Tennessee, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn called on Lee to reconvene the General Assembly following the Supreme Court decision.
“Reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It’s essential to cement President Donald Trump’s agenda and the Golden Age of America,” Blackburn said in part.
Who comes next? Well, Florida was already moving in this direction and passed a new map yesterday.
The Florida Legislature on Wednesday approved a new congressional map proposed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that aims to give Republicans four more seats as the party seeks to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.
The bill now goes to DeSantis’ desk for final approval. The votes happened hours after the Supreme Court narrowed a section of the Voting Rights Act, which could result in Republicans nationwide working to redraw congressional districts with a majority of Black or Latino voters that tend to favor Democrats.
Florida’s Constitution has provisions that require race to be considered when redistricting, but Gov. DeSantis argued on X yesterday that those provisions were now ivalidated because the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The SCOTUS ruling also invalidates the below provisions of the FL Constitution requiring the use of race in redistricting:
”…districts shall not be drawn with the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in… https://t.co/IqrLoWdO0L
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) April 29, 2026
Next up is Mississippi which could redraw maps to gain one R seat.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has already announced that a redistricting session would happen 21 days after the Louisiana v. Callais ruling, which would be May 20. GOP operatives in the state note his call was technically focused on redrawing the State’s Supreme court districts, as those lines had been challenged in courts over diluting the voting power of Black voters.
But it’s possible that Mississippi Republicans will tack on congressional redistricting to this, too, and add 1 GOP-leaning seat by targeting the state’s 2nd Congressional District, a majority-Black district represented by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson.
Another seat could be picked up in Alabama but here the state may be tied up by an appeal to the Supreme Court:
In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Alabama when they took up a similar case to Louisiana v. Callais. They ruled 5-4 in the Allen v. Milligan case that a state GOP-supported congressional map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and ordered the state to redraw a map that includes a second Black-majority Congressional seat.
But after a federal three judge panel ruled that map violated the Voting Rights Act and 14th Amendment, the state appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court again.
Republican Gov. Kay Ivey pointed to that pending litigation as a reason to not yet call for a special session to redraw the maps. “While we are not in position to have a special session at this time, I hope in light of this new decision, the court is favorable to Alabama,” Ivey said in a statement.
But that’s not necessarily the end of it. Alabama has already filed emergency motions asking the Court to allow them to use the 2023 maps in light of yesterday’s decision.
Attorney General Steve Marshall filed three emergency motions with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to lift injunctions that block Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map. The filings come in response to the court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which addressed how race and politics are considered in redistricting challenges.
According to the Attorney General’s Office, the motions were filed in three ongoing cases and ask the court to vacate lower court injunctions and allow Alabama to move forward using its map. The filings also request the cases be expedited and reconsidered under the legal standard outlined in the Callais decision.
So it’s not impossible but it would require some swift action by the Justices.
If all of these redistricting attempts go the GOP’s way (a big assumption at this point) the GOP could potentially pick up 9 House seats.
Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
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