Members of Congress offered mixed reactions after the SupremeCourt limited the use of race in redistricting, ruling in a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map.
On April 29, the Court decided 6–3 in Louisiana v.
The SupremeCourt on May 4 temporarily restored widespread access to an abortion drug called mifepristone, staying a lower court ruling that had blocked it from being sent by mail.
The SupremeCourt vacated lower court rulings that required Alabama to use a congressional map that included two majority-black districts out of the state’s seven districts.
SupremeCourt late on May 4 took the unusual step of making its recent ruling to limit the use of race in redistricting effective ahead of the usual 32-day waiting period.
The court did not explain its decision. No justices dissented. The court disposed of the case summarily without hearing oral arguments.
The SupremeCourt also vacated the convictions and sent the case back to the U.S.
In 2024, the Quebec government passed a law to block the commission's changes, but it was deemed unconstitutional by the Court of Appeal and eventually by the SupremeCourt of Canada.
SupremeCourt at 9 a.m. ET on April 27 to raise concerns over the health risks associated with pesticide and chemical exposure, as well as corporate accountability and government regulation in the industry.
SupremeCourt ruled 6–3 that race could not be a factor when drawing boundaries for electoral districts.
The decision by the SupremeCourt blocked an electoral map that gave Louisiana a second black-majority U.S. congressional district.
Trump previously filed a petition with the SupremeCourt in November 2025 to challenge the $5 million verdict. It is unclear when the high court will act on it.
By correctly concluding that [the Tennessee law] warrants the ‘paradigm of judicial restraint,’ the Court reserves to the people of Tennessee the right to decide for themselves.
The federal government argues in its application to the SupremeCourt that the lower courts made an error when concluding the requirement of a “national emergency” was not met.
That’s what the SupremeCourt was grappling with when they heard the Trump versus Barbara case on Wednesday.
It was so significant – President Trump was in the court to hear part of the arguments.
The makers of mifepristone, which is part of a two-drug regimen often called “the abortion pill,” asked the SupremeCourt on May 2 to allow the prescription medication to be sent in the mail after a lower court blocked it.
The state SupremeCourt had earlier allowed the special election to proceed as it considered the case. Republicans have brought several challenges to the referendum in lower courts.