As RedState reported, after the United States Supreme Court made the consequential 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais on Wednesday, the Callais appellees petitioned the court to fast-track the judgment. The appellees were concerned that the normal 32-day waiting period to seal a decision would delay the ability to have a usable map for the 2026 midterm elections.
On Monday, Justice Samuel Alito responded to their request, filing the judgment on the SCOTUS decision.
The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request to immediately finalize its opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, in which it struck down that state’s congressional map, to allow Louisiana to draw a new map in time for the 2026 elections. That map is expected to favor Republicans, who currently hold four of the state’s six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives but could pick up one or even two more under a revised map.[...]
In an unsigned, one-paragraph order, the court explained that, to give the losing party time to ask the justices to reconsider their decision, the Supreme Court’s clerk normally waits 32 days after a decision is issued before sending a copy of the opinion and the judgment to the lower court. But, the court wrote, in this case the Black voters defending the map at the center of the dispute “have not expressed any intent to ask this Court to reconsider its judgment.”
The judgment read, in part:
Appellant Louisiana does not oppose this application. And while the Robinson appellants oppose it, they have not expressed any intent to ask this Court to reconsider its judgment. Thus, the application to issue the judgment forthwith presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the Court is granted.
Curious that there was no request for reconsideration. Leftists on social media are still in complete meltdown over this SCOTUS decision and the domino effect it has triggered. Attorney Marc Elias, the king of leftist lawfare and election interference, has been having a conniption, crying, and pushing through injunctions to try and stop the redistricting efforts.
He needs to cry more, then change his underwear.
Now there is this brain trust, who conflates the purported "stripping of voting rights" to Blacks in Louisiana being unable to combat air pollution. Her intellect is absolutely stunning. (/sarc)
Louisiana v. Callais is a catastrophic attack on voting rights — and a gift to polluters.
— Michelle Deatrick (@MDeatrick) May 4, 2026
Cancer Alley communities — some facing cancer risks 47x the EPA threshold — just lost political power to fight back against the corporations poisoning them.
Suppress the vote. Protect the… pic.twitter.com/hadDAUeasx
Louisiana v. Callais is a catastrophic attack on voting rights — and a gift to polluters.
Cancer Alley communities — some facing cancer risks 47x the EPA threshold — just lost political power to fight back against the corporations poisoning them.
Suppress the vote. Protect the polluters.
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With this SCOTUS decision officially recorded, the District Court panel can now get to the business of approving a new map, which Louisiana must submit within three days of this judgment.
The district court has ordered Louisiana to submit a compliance plan within 3 days of this judgment.
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) May 4, 2026
The three-judge panel will now oversee the redrawing of the congressional map to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling in Callais.
Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Neil Gorsuch concurred with Alito's judgment. The only dissent came from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who, in an almost three-page screed, expressed her displeasure.
The court’s decision drew sharp criticism from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the lone dissenter. Jackson argued that the court’s ruling “has spawned chaos in the State of Louisiana.” Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, wrote a concurring opinion that responded to Jackson with equally sharp words, countering that her rhetoric “lacks restraint.”
Justice Jackson went so far as to say:
To avoid the appearance of partiality here, we could, as per usual, opt to stay on the sidelines and take no position by applying our default procedures.
But, today, the Court chooses the opposite. Not content to have decided the law, it now takes steps to influence its implementation. The Court’s decision to buck our usual practice under Rule 45.3 and issue the judgment forthwith is tantamount to an approval of Louisiana’s rush to pause the ongoing election in order to pass a new map.
[...]
The Court unshackles itself from both constraints today and dives into the fray. And just like that, those principles give way to power. Because this abandon is unwarranted and unwise, respectfully, I dissent.
Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch clapped back at Brown's dissent, and by SCOTUS standards, their response is quite epic.
Justice Alito fires back at Justice Jackson, calling her solo dissent "baseless and insulting" and "utterly irresponsible" after she accused the majority of abandoning principle for power. pic.twitter.com/cfSGyWcuC7
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) May 4, 2026
The dissent in this suit levels charges that cannot go unanswered. The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional.* The dissent does not claim that it is now too late for the state legislature or the District Court to adopt a new map that complies with the Constitution. Nor does the dissent assert that it is not feasible for the elections to be held under such a map. Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action. One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting.
It concluded with the rhetorical equivalent of a body slam:
The dissent accuses the Court of “unshackl[ing]” itself from “constraints.” Post, at 4. It is the dissent’s rhetoric that lacks restraint.
That's going to leave a mark. Consider that the Justices' version of this scene from the film "Airplane."
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