2026年4月30日 下午6:48 美东时间 / CNN
作者：蒂尔尼·斯尼德、弗雷德里卡·舒滕、约翰·弗里茨
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发布于2026年4月30日，下午6:48 美东时间
就在最高法院进一步削弱《选举权法案》的一天后，由共和党掌控的州正着手修改规则，以推进共和党主导的选区操纵，牺牲少数族裔选民的利益；而选举权维权团体则试图限制该裁决对今年中期选举的影响。
最高法院的裁决拉开了这场竞赛的序幕：法院驳回了路易斯安那州的国会选区地图，该地图原本设有两个黑人选民占多数的国会选区。这份意见书将使得依据《选举权法案》质疑歧视性选区重划方案的难度大幅提升。
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约翰·罗伯茨削弱《选举权法案》的行动已彻底完成 阅读时长8分钟
路易斯安那州由共和党控制的州议会领导人表示，他们正准备制定一份新的国会选区地图，用于11月的中期选举——尽管5月16日的初选选票已经寄出。共和党官员表示，他们不会计算国会众议院候选人的初选得票。
在田纳西州，共和党高级官员面临越来越多的公众呼吁，要求召开特别立法会议，以罢免该州唯一的民主党联邦众议员。佐治亚州、南卡罗来纳州和阿拉巴马州等其他州也日益出现要求重划选区的右翼压力。
与此同时，原本为路易斯安那州现行国会选区地图辩护的黑人选民群体周四警告最高法院，不要允许该州根据法院裁决仓促进行选区重划。
“州长已经暗示，他打算取消正在进行的共和党和民主党初选，而选民已经为此投出了选票，候选人也已经投入了大量资金、时间和精力，”为该选区地图辩护的黑人选民告诉最高法院，同时援引最高法院过往的裁决，呼吁法院警惕因临时变动扰乱选举筹备工作。
“如此极端的举措，”选民们表示，“既无必要，也不合理。”
佛罗里达州共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯周三借助最高法院的裁决，推动该州国会选区规划获得通过，该规划旨在将四个民主党掌控的众议院席位转为共和党所有。此前该州议会和国会代表团曾对此持谨慎态度。
前司法部投票律师、现选举官员顾问戴维·贝克尔表示，一旦议会通过新的选区重划方案，“这只是起点，而非终点”，相关官员需要紧急调整选举管理方案。
这包括核实数百万选民是否已被正确划入新选区，并重启候选人资格审核流程。
这场纷争爆发前，唐纳德·特朗普总统已经通过说服德克萨斯州启动史无前例的中期选区重划，为本次选举周期注入了巨大混乱——此举引发了共和党与民主党之间的选区操纵军备竞赛。
“在这场最高法院刚刚火上浇油的党派斗争中，夹在中间的是选举官员和选民，”贝克尔说，“他们不会是赢家。”
特朗普加入针对长期批评者的施压行动
田纳西州国会代表团中唯一的民主党人、特朗普的主要批评者史蒂夫·科恩（代表孟买地区的联邦众议员）的席位如今面临风险，州议员正施压要求在8月初选前调整选区，将他移出所属选区。
特朗普周四在社交媒体发帖称，他已与该州共和党州长比尔·李通话。他表示，李已承诺“努力纠正”该州联邦众议院选区地图存在的“违宪缺陷”。特朗普还称，该州其他政治领导人也同意采取行动。
李的发言人未立即回应CNN的置评请求。田纳西州众议院议长卡梅伦·塞克斯顿在一份声明中表示：“我正在与白宫及其他人士沟通，同时正在审查最新的裁决意见。”
根据田纳西州法律，州长或州议会参众两院的多数议员必须召集议会召开特别会议，才能重划众议院选区地图。
试图延缓路易斯安那州仓促重划黑人民主党议员的众议院席位
目前提交至最高法院的是一个程序性问题，虽然技术性较强，但可能意义重大，涉及该裁决在路易斯安那州的生效速度。
挑战该州第二个黑人选区的白人选民群体周三晚提交紧急请求，敦促法院立即敲定裁决，而非等待通常所需的一个月时间，正式将案件发回下级法院处理。
但在本案中败诉的选举权维权团体周四告诉大法官，最高法院“没有紧迫性”立即执行裁决，并警告此举会在选举已经启动的情况下造成混乱。该团体敦促法院推迟采取进一步行动，直至选举结束。
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关于生效时间的上诉正由大法官塞缪尔·阿利托审理，他负责处理来自路易斯安那州、德克萨斯州以及其他隶属于美国第五巡回上诉法院辖区的紧急案件。正是阿利托撰写了6票赞成、3票反对的裁决意见书，驳回了该州的选区地图。
阿利托周三的裁决意见未就该案后续处理给出任何指导。2024年，最高法院曾阻止下级法院推翻该州选区地图的裁决。阿利托或是整个最高法院都必须裁定，这项两年前的禁令是否仍然有效，或是已被周三的最高法院裁决实质上解除。
路易斯安那州众议员克利奥·菲尔兹是民主党人，其所属选区正是本次选举权维权裁决的核心争议点。他谴责州共和党人暂停初选的举动。
“民众已经在投票了，”菲尔兹告诉CNN，“还说‘你的选票不算数，我们只是要改选区，我们要终止选举’，这简直是伤口上撒盐。”
密西西比州司法选区案将成为早期法律考验
最高法院裁决的影响将率先在密西西比州得到检验。该州黑人选民依据《选举权法案》成功挑战了州最高法院席位的选举边界。本周相关程序正在进行，以确定新的司法选区地图应如何绘制。
资深地区法官沙里翁·艾考克要求各方于下周提交补充摘要，说明最高法院的裁决将如何影响本案。
自最高法院发布裁决以来，选举法学者一直在争论的一个悬而未决的问题是，该裁决将如何适用于非党派选举。
阿利托的裁决意见将党派选区操纵列为各州可以用来抵御《选举权法案》挑战的抗辩理由。但由于密西西比州的司法选举属于非党派选举，该案或将展示新的标准在非党派选举中的适用方式——这类选举在地方民选机构中十分常见。
甚至在裁决发布前，密西西比州共和党州长塔特·里夫斯就已告诉议员，他将召开特别立法会议，以处理最高法院裁决对司法选区规划的影响。
Supreme Court decision sets off gerrymandering scramble
2026-04-30 6:48 PM ET / CNN
By Tierney Sneed, Fredreka Schouten, John Fritze
42 min ago
PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2026, 6:48 PM ET
The US Supreme Court building on April 29.
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A day after the Supreme Court further gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republican-led states are eying changes to boost the GOP’s gerrymandering effort at the expense of voters of color, while voting rights groups are trying to limit the impact of the ruling on this year’s midterms.
The Supreme Court kicked off the scramble by throwing out a Louisiana congressional map that had two Black-majority districts in an opinion that will make it significantly harder to challenge redistricting plans as discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act.
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Leaders of Louisiana’s Republican-controlled legislature said they are preparing to draw a new congressional map to be used for November’s midterms, even as ballots have already put been in the mail for the May 16 primary. GOP officials said they won’t count the votes for US House candidates in the primary.
In Tennessee, top Republican officials faced growing public calls to launch a special legislative session with the goal of removing the state’s only Democratic congressman. Right-wing pressure for redistricting is also building in other states, including Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama.
Meanwhile, a group of Black voters who were defending Louisiana’s current congressional map cautioned the Supreme Court on Thursday against allowing the state to rush into a hasty redistricting based on the court’s decision.
“The governor has already indicated that he intends to cancel the ongoing Republican and Democratic primary elections in which voters have already cast ballots and on which candidates have already heavily expended their money, time, and resources,” the Black voters who were defending the maps told the Supreme Court, while citing past orders from the justices urging courts to be wary of disrupting election planning with last-minute moves.
“Such a drastic action,” the voters said, “is unnecessary and unwarranted.”
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday was able to use the Supreme Court’s ruling to help get a congressional plan passed in that state that aims to turn four blue House seats red, after facing leeriness by both the state legislature and the congressional delegation.
Once the legislature passes a new redistricting plan, “it’s the starting line, not the finishing line,” for the officials who need to hurriedly rework their plans for administering the election, said David Becker, a former Justice Department voting attorney who now advises election officials.
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That could include verifying that millions of voters are properly coded for their new districts and restarting the candidate qualification process.
The current tussling comes after President Donald Trump already injected enormous chaos into this electoral cycle by convincing Texas to embark on an unprecedented round of mid-decade redistricting – a move that started a gerrymandering arms race between Republicans and Democrats.
“In the partisan war that we are facing that the Supreme Court just inflamed, the parties caught in the middle are the election officials and the voters,” Becker said, “They’re not going to be any winners here.”
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The seat of Memphis-area US Rep. Steve Cohen, the sole Democrat in Tennessee’s congressional delegation and a major Trump critic, is now at risk with state lawmakers feeling the squeeze to draw him out of the district before an August primary.
In a social media post Thursday, Trump said he had spoken to the state’s GOP Gov. Bill Lee. Lee, he said, has pledged to “work hard to correct the unconstitutional flaw” in the state’s US House map. The president said other political leaders in the state also have agreed to take action.
A Lee spokesperson did not immediately respond to CNN’s inquiry. In a statement, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton said: “We are reviewing the recent opinion as I have conversations with the White House and other individuals.”
Under Tennessee law, the governor or the majority of members in both chambers of the state’s General Assembly would have to call the legislature back into a special session to redraw the House map.
Attempts to slow-roll Louisiana’s rush to redraw a Black Democrat’s House seat
Now pending before the Supreme Court is a technical but potentially meaningful procedural question about how quickly that ruling will take effect in Louisiana.
The group of White voters who challenged the second Black district filed an emergency request late Wednesday urging the court to make its decision final immediately, rather than waiting the month it would normally take to formally send the case back to a lower court for action.
But the voting rights group who lost the case told the justices on Thursday that there is “no urgency” for the Supreme Court to implement its decision and warned that doing so would cause confusion during an election that is already underway. It urged the court to hold off on taking further action until the election is over.
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The appeal over timing is pending before Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency cases rising from Louisiana, Texas and other states covered by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals. It was also Alito who authored the 6-3 opinion striking down the state’s map.
Alito’s opinion Wednesday included no guidance on what should happen next in the case. In 2024, the Supreme Court blocked a lower court ruling striking down the state’s map. Either Alito or the broader court will have to decide whether that two-year-old order remains in effect or was effectively lifted by the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday.
Louisiana Rep. Cleo Fields, the Democrat whose district is at the center of the voting rights opinion, decried the move by state Republicans to suspend the primary.
“People are already voting,” Fields told CNN. “It adds insult to injury to come and say, ‘Your vote won’t be counted. We’re just going to change the districts. We’re going to stop the election.’”
A case over Mississippi’s judicial lines poses an early legal test
An early test to the Supreme Court ruling’s impact will be in Mississippi, where Black voters brought a successful Voting Rights Act challenge to the electoral boundaries for state supreme court seats. Proceedings in that case were under way this week to determine how a new judicial map should be drawn.
Senior District Judge Sharion Aycock has asked for additional briefs due next week on how the Supreme Court ruling affects the case.
An open question that election law scholars have been debating since the Supreme Court’s ruling is how it will apply in non-partisan elections.
Alito’s opinion sets up partisan gerrymandering as a defense that states can use to ward off VRA challenges. But because Mississippi’s judicial elections are non-partisan, that case could show how the new standard will work in non-partisan elections, which are common for local elected bodies.
Even before the ruling had come down, Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves had told lawmakers he’d call a special legislative session to address how the Supreme Court’s opinion affects the judicial plan.
