ACLU of Mississippi Responds to Joint Motion in State Supreme Court Redistricting Case
May 7, 2026 3:00 pm
Yesterday, we filed a joint motion, with the State, in the Fifth Circuit seeking to vacate and remand the appeal in the State Supreme Court litigation.
If the motion is granted, the immediate effect of this will be to remove the injunction preventing the use of the current districts for 2026, and thus eliminate the immediate need for the special session.
“But make no mistake, in the event the case is vacated and remanded, we are ready to return to court.
Callais changed the test to assess if whether a redistricting plan violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,” Jarvis Dortch, Executive Director of ACLU of Mississippi.
We will show that, even under Callais’ restrictive standards, Mississippi’s state supreme court districts are discriminatory and violate federal law. And we will ask the federal court that already found these districts unlawful to reconfirm that finding."
The Callais decision is a profound setback for our multiracial democracy. But it doesn’t stop our fight to correct the state’s racially discriminatory supreme court map.
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