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Mississippi map fight heads back to lower court after Supreme Court ruling
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Mississippi map fight heads back to lower court after Supreme Court ruling.Governor calls Supreme Court order a win for Mississippi Gov.Tate Reeves said an order on Monday from the U.S.Supreme Court is a win for Mississippi.The Supreme Court vacated a ruling saying that Mississippi's 2022 state legislative maps violated the Voting Rights Act and remanded the case back to the U.S.District Court.The justices sent it back to the lower court to reconsider its decision in light of Louisiana v.Callais, which significantly narrowed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act."Today, we got an additional piece of judicial clarity as the U.S.Supreme Court vacated the 2025 order of the lower court requiring Mississippi to redraw three state legislative districts," Reeves said in a statement."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." Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, arguing that Callais didn't change anything relevant to this case, and the lower court's ruling should have simply been left in place.The lawsuit was brought by the ACLU and the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP, among others."This opinion and decision is another win for the principle that all Americans are created equal," Reeves said."In Mississippi, we have much more work to do to get our maps fully fixed (in all three areas mentioned above) after years of unconstitutional requirements placed on the state by the lower courts.But, today is another good day for Mississippi and America." The Mississippi Voting Rights Act Rapid Response Coalition condemned the Supreme Court order and emphasized that it is not "a greenlight to racially gerrymander legislative or congressional districts."