Supreme Court Declines to Rule for Now on Louisiana Election Map Challenged by Non-Minorities

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 declined to issue a ruling on an election map for Louisiana that includes two black-majority congressional districts. The nation’s highest court had been expected to rule on federal court decisions that required Louisiana to change boundary lines to create a second black-majority congressional district in the state. Instead, the court said the two cases that were heard together on March 24—Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais—will be reargued in the court’s new term that begins in October. The court announced its new decision in an unsigned order. The justices did not explain why they decided to order new arguments....