Answer: kind of, but not really.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Louisiana‘s request to enforce its congressional redistricting map, initially passed by the Republican-majority legislature in 2022. Judges ruled the map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting the votes of black residents through practices described as “packing” and “cracking” black voters, undermining their voting power.

Notably, 83 percent of black voters nationwide backed Democrat candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

The court rejected Louisiana’s argument that race-based remedies are no longer necessary, stating, “There is no legal basis for this proposition, and the state offers no evidence that conditions in Louisiana have changed.” One judge issued a stay before the decision could take effect, though the Supreme Court had already stayed the map earlier in the year.

The Supreme Court is also currently reviewing the case in Louisiana v. Callais and has requested additional arguments from both sides. The focus remains on whether Louisiana’s redistricting efforts were narrowly tailored to meet constitutional requirements. Justices are expected to weigh in further during the fall term.

The litigation comes amid broader redistricting battles across the country, with both Republican- and Democrat-led states revising their maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. States like Texas and California are engaged in legal and political fights over their congressional maps, and the outcomes of these disputes could significantly impact the balance of power in Congress during the next election cycle.

The thing is, this is almost certainly going to go away if what we’ve heard is true; namely, that the Supreme Court is going to get rid of Section 2 of the Voting Rights act when another Louisiana case, Callais v Louisiana, is decided this fall.

The legislative map case was another one of Shelley Dick’s follies. She’s the Obama judge in Baton Rouge who magically seems to be getting all the election cases, and the naked partisanship she continues to show in her rulings really ought to be impeachable – but of course, no federal judges are getting impeached by a Congress so deeply split down the middle.

As an aside, we’re fine with impeaching federal judges who make deeply egregious rulings; if the impeachment doesn’t result in a removal, that’s fine; it’s still very, very expensive to defend against an impeachment given the legal team the individual being impeached will have to bring on. Let the process be the punishment. Shelley Dick’s political friends taught us that.

But this was the Fifth Circuit, or a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit, backing Dick’s crazy ruling throwing out the state’s legislative maps.

The guess here is that the state of Louisiana is going to ask for an en banc hearing of the Fifth Circuit, because when all of the judges hear the case they probably go the other way.

But by the time we’d see that, it would seem like the Supreme Court will have already ruled in the Callais case, and if the Supremes blow out Section 2 as lots of people expect them to, this case would necessarily go away.

That said, everything we’ve heard has it that there will be a special session of the Legislature after the Callas decision comes down, in order to redraw the congressional map and make it a 5-1 Republican split among the delegation.

And we’re also hearing that there could be some creative things done with that map. Namely, that it might not necessarily be Cleo Fields who gets thrown into a “white Republican” district.

Maybe it’s Troy Carter. Or maybe it’s both. It’s not hard to draw a 6-0 Louisiana congressional map. We’re as Republican a state as several gerrymandered blue states are Democrat. and many of them have drawn Republicans out of all of their districts.

And when Section 2 goes away, if it does, perhaps the thing to do is to redraw the legislative map along similarly aggressive lines.

That would be more of an exercise in “fool around and find out,” of course, because the current legislative map is pretty good from the standpoint of blocking white leftists from having the ability to leverage black votes to get elected – and that’s the most important thing Louisiana can do to secure its future given the damage white leftists have consistently done when in power.

Still, punishing some of the race-hustling groups who keep running into court to decry “racist” district maps because they don’t provide enough affirmative action for black Democrat politicians is certainly warranted.

And if the Supreme Court does what’s being contemplated and blows out Section 2, we should see some of that.

There ought to be negative consequences for the kind of lawfare the Left has waged in Louisiana’s courts. Here’s hoping the Louisiana Legislature is willing to put the FO in the Left’s FA in that special session.