The Daily Brief — Apr. 29, 2026
The latest on SCOTUS’s ending Voting Rights Act protections, weighing the end of deportation protections for Syrian and Haitians, a State Department plan to put Trump’s photo on passports, and more
SCOTUS Strikes Down Louisiana Congressional Map
The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s voting map that created a second majority-Black congressional district, ruling today that it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Voting Rights Act (VRA).
Section 2 of the VRA effectively bans voting rules or political maps that resul…