It now appears that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to get involved in the ongoing redistricting fight in Louisiana. 

CNN reports that the justices signaled their willingness to intervene in a brief order that it published on Friday.

This could be a big deal for several reasons, including the effect that the case may have on the Voting Rights Act.

BIG SCOTUS NEWS: the justices ordered the parties in the Louisiana redistricting case to file briefs on whether it's unconstitutional to create electoral districts that boost minority voting power.

👉 a STRONG HINT they want to strike down what remains of the Voting Rights Act pic.twitter.com/UcGn2Nz0Em

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) August 1, 2025

Here's what's going on:

The case is Louisiana v. Callais.

SCOTUS Blog reports:

The case came to the court as a request by Louisiana and a group of Black voters to reinstate a map, adopted by the Louisiana Legislature in 2024, that created a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. The 2024 map responded to a ruling by a federal district court holding that a 2022 map that contained only one majority-Black district likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits election practices that result in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote. The group of Black voters seeking to revive the 2024 map in the proceeding now before the court had argued in the earlier case that the 2022 map diluted the votes of Black residents, who make up roughly one-third of Louisiana’s population.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case back in March 2025.

They did not, however, issue a decision.

Instead, they have now asked for new briefs from the lawyers.

The latest

The Supreme Court published its order on Friday.

It reads:

The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question raised on pages 36-38 of the Brief for Appelles: Whether the State's intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

This is the question that the court will seek to answer, but first it has asked for each side to essentially put forth its best arguments.

The court's order continues:

Supplemental brief for appelless is due on or before Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Reply briefs are due on or before 2 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2025. The time to file amicus curiae briefs is as provided for by this Court's Rule 37.3 . . .

So it will be some time before a decision is reached in this case, but, when that decision comes, it could be a consequential one.