Democrats pledged April 29 to push back against Republican-led redistricting in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down a Louisiana congressional map containing two majority-black districts, pointing to legislation, court fights, and grassroots organizing as avenues of response.
Republican officials in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama have begun discussing redistricting in response to the ruling. Louisiana’s Republican attorney general said the state would draw a new congressional map. The Supreme Court’s ruling automatically triggered a Mississippi special session, set to begin 21 days from April 29, that Republican Gov. Tate Reeves had called to give the state Legislature a chance to redraw electoral maps under the new standards….