Mississippi NAACP and civil rights coalition

Rule Changes

Won Section 2 ruling at trial; awaiting Fifth Circuit and Callais

Mississippi has been drawing its three Supreme Court districts the same way since 1987. On April 25, 2026, Governor Tate Reeves signed a proclamation that puts the legislature on a 21-day timer the moment the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Louisiana v. Callais. Whatever framework the justices adopt for race in redistricting, Mississippi will use it to redraw judicial maps a federal judge has already declared illegal.

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