BlavityBy Christopher RhodesMay 18, 2026The Supreme Court’s decision to effectively gut the Voting Rights Act has set off a scramble of Republican-led Southern states rushing to redraw their congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections. After a subsequent Supreme Court decision helped speed along this process of eliminating majority-Black districts, the court’s only Black woman has issued a scathing dissent criticizing her colleagues.
The fast-tracking led Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who dissented on the original case, to issue a scathing rebuke of her colleagues.
In her latest dissent, Jackson said, “The Court’s decision in these cases has spawned chaos in the State of Louisiana.” Jackson noted that mail-in ballots in Louisiana had been distributed and some had already been completed and mailed back by the time the court made its decision. By speeding up the implementation process of its ruling, Jackson argued that the court is going beyond the requirements of the ruling to influence a political outcome. Their decision to waive the usual 32-day certification period “is tantamount to an approval of Louisiana’s rush to pause the ongoing election in order to pass a new map.” Jackson called out the Supreme Court for violating two of its principles by inserting itself into a partisan redistricting process and by not following its own “Purcell principle,” by which the courts are generally hesitant to implement last-minute rule changes for elections. “The Court unshackles itself from both constraints today and dives into the fray,” Jackson wrote. “And just like that, those principles give way to power.”
The court went beyond the ruling on the constitutionality and entered realm of politics
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