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Governor touts ‘another win’ after Supreme Court vacates order redrawing state legislative districts
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Governor touts ‘another win’ after Supreme Court vacates order redrawing state legislative districts.Governor touts ‘another win’ after Supreme Court vacates order redrawing state legislative districts JACKSON, Miss.(WLBT) - Gov.Tate Reeves is touting another win for “the principle that all Americans are created equal,” after the U.S.Supreme Court vacated an order requiring the state to redraw its legislative districts.On Monday, the court vacated the ruling in the NAACP’s case against the Mississippi Board of Election Commissioners decision in light of its recent ruling in Louisiana v.A lower court ordered the state to redraw several legislative districts as a result of the NAACP’s challenge.The changes led to multiple special elections in 2025, which ended the state’s longtime Republican supermajority.[READ: After 13 years, Democrats break Republicans’ supermajority in the Mississippi Senate] “The U.S.Supreme Court has again recognized that race may not be considered in drawing legislative maps.They also remanded this case back to the original three judge panel - an opinion that we believe ultimately results in the 2022 legislative maps being reinstated,” Reeves wrote.The news comes days after the U.S.Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Judge Sharion Aycock’s decision requiring the state to redraw its Supreme Court lines following Callais.It also comes as some state leaders ramp up their push for Mississippi to redraw its four Congressional districts in an effort to remove longtime Democratic Rep.Bennie Thompson from office.Reeves said that “there are a lot of moving parts and complexities to consider with respect to the next steps on redistricting...Each of these requires thoughtful consideration of all potential cause and [effects], and, in some cases, may even require further clarity from the courts.” While Reeves applauds the high court’s decision, some civil rights groups are condemning it.In a statement, the Mississippi Voting Rights Act Rapid Response Coalition called the ruling an “unprecedented and lawless order vacating the final judgment in the successful Section 2 challenge to Mississippi’s state legislative districts.” The suit challenging Mississippi’s legislative districts was brought by the ACLU, ACLU of Mississippi, the Mississippi Center for Justice, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, who was representing the NAACP and Mississippi voters.“The only issue before the Court was whether private plaintiffs may bring claims under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act; not whether the Court’s decision in Louisiana v.Callais had any bearing on this case,” the coalition said in a statement.“The implications of Callais on Mississippi’s legislative maps were never before the Court.The parties never briefed that issue.Yet the Court vacated the judgment anyway.That is not principled jurisprudence.It is judicial activism in service of dismantling the Voting Rights Act, weakening Black political power across the South, and trying to take us back to Jim Crow.” Want more WLBT news in your inbox?Click here to subscribe to our newsletter.See a spelling or grammar error in our story?Please click here to report it and include the headline of the story in your email.Copyright 2026 WLBT.All rights reserved.