The primaries for the 2026 midterm elections are underway, as Republicans and Democrats fight for control for the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans have a razor-thin margin, by trying to redraw congressional district maps.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled on the Voting Rights Act case, striking down Louisiana’s voting map. Then on Thursday, Louisiana’s governor issued an executive order delaying the state’s House primary elections and requested the Legislature reconvene and pass new congressional maps. On Friday, Tennessee’s governor called for a special session for the state’s lawmakers to consider new House maps.

So, for now, here is a breakdown of states where maps affecting November’s election have already been redone, or where there has been action to make changes.

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals suspended former President Joe Biden administration’s 2023 Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for mifepristone nationwide, Attorney General Liz Murrill announced.

Based on this ruling, prescribers cannot lawfully mail abortion drugs into the state of Louisiana. Now, the in-person dispensing of mifepristone, a prescription used to medically terminate a pregnancy, is again required while litigation continues.

“The Biden abortion cartel facilitated the deaths of thousands of Louisiana babies (and millions in other states) through illegal mail-order abortion pills,” Murrill said.

“Today, that nightmare is over, thanks to the hard work of my office and our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom. I look forward to continuing to defend women and babies as this case continues.”

Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama said on Friday she would summon lawmakers to consider a new congressional map under the newly weakened Voting Rights Act, but acknowledged legislators could act only if the Supreme Court clears the way.

Ms. Ivey’s call for a special session may not affect the 2026 midterm elections, but it was the first step taken by a state not directly affected by this week’s Supreme Court decision that further eroded the law. That decision rejected Louisiana’s congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander.

Alabama has longstanding court battles over its congressional map and whether Black voters have had their power undermined. On Thursday, Ms. Ivey had said adopting a new map was impossible before November, because a federal court order bars the state from using new district lines until after the 2030 census.

Later that day, Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, asked the Supreme Court to let lawmakers revisit the map. Mr. Marshall filed motions in three redistricting cases pending before the court, asking the justices to lift lower court orders preventing that.

In her statement, Ms. Ivey said she wants legislators to be in position to move quickly. She suggested that if the Supreme Court allowed, the state would return to a congressional map previously approved in 2023 and a state senate map approved in 2021.

A pair of unusually heated Georgia Supreme Court elections grew even more consequential on Wednesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically weakened the Voting Rights Act with a 6-3 decision in Louisiana vs. Callais—effectively inviting states to overhaul their election laws and pursue a fresh round of gerrymandering.

Within hours of the ruling, prominent Republicans called for the adoption of new maps that could gut Black political representation in Georgia, which already has a long history of limiting Black voting power.

The Callais decision comes as no surprise to the candidates in Georgia’s May 19 judicial elections, who told Bolts in interviews ahead of the decision that they were preparing for such a ruling, and that they expected it would hand the Georgia Supreme Court, like its counterparts in the rest of the country, greater responsibility on matters of election law.

Two liberal lawyers, former Democratic state Senator Jen Jordan and personal injury attorney Miracle Rankin, are seeking to oust Justices Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel, respectively, and all but Warren agreed to interviews with Bolts. The elections are officially nonpartisan, but the challengers are running with Democratic Party backing, while Governor Brian Kemp and other Republicans have rallied around the incumbents.

In a post-Callais America, Jordan told Bolts, “People are going to have to start bringing more and more of these challenges to the state court system … I’m looking forward at what’s going to be coming down the pike in terms of democracy or election challenges.

“Pro-democracy, pro-people justices—that’s the majority I would like to see,” she said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that states should consider promptly redrawing congressional districts after the Supreme Court’s ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act — a move that would help Republicans gain seats in this year’s midterm elections.

Johnson’s endorsement of last-minute redistricting in the wake of Wednesday’s ruling adds pressure to Republican-led states weighing whether there’s enough time to create new district boundaries and boost the GOP’s chances of maintaining control of the House.

“We want constitutional maps,” Johnson (R-Louisiana) told reporters on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “All states that have unconstitutional maps should look at that very carefully, and I think they should do it before the midterms.”

His home state was the subject of the lawsuit that reshaped how states can consider race when drawing congressional boundaries, which for decades helped voters in the South elect Black Democrats to the House. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) is preparing to suspend primary elections already underway there to draw districts that comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling, according to two people familiar with his plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

The ruling’s practical impact, according to both parties, is that many Democratic-leaning districts drawn to consolidate majority-minority voters can be redrawn to GOP advantage. The vast majority of those districts are in the South.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s congressional primaries won’t be going forward as scheduled in May, as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a majority Black congressional district, the state’s top elected officials said Thursday.

Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a joint statement that Wednesday’s high court ruling effectively prohibits the state from carrying out the primaries under the current districts. Early voting had been scheduled to begin Saturday in advance of the May 16 primary.

“The State is currently enjoined from carrying out congressional elections under the current map," Landry and Murrill said in the statement posted to social media. “We are working together with the Legislature and the Secretary of State’s office to develop a path forward.”

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) told Republican House candidates Wednesday that he plans to suspend next month’s primary elections so state lawmakers can pass a new congressional map first, according to two people with knowledge of the calls.

The move follows a Supreme Court decision earlier in the day that found Louisiana had unlawfully discriminated by race when it created a second majority Black congressional district under legal pressure. The ruling positions Republicans to gain one or two seats in the midterms as they fight to hold their narrow majority in the House.

The 6-3 decision limited a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act and could lead to other Black Democrats across the South losing their House seats. Most states are unlikely to be able to redraw districts in time for the November midterm elections, but Louisiana could be one of the exceptions.

Landry’s announcement to suspend the May 16 primary could come as early as Friday — one day before early voting is to begin, according to people familiar with his plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Election officials sent ballots to overseas voters weeks ago. It’s unclear whether the governor’s suspension would apply only to primaries for the six House seats, or include other elections, including the heated Senate primary that pits incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy (R) against Rep. Julia Letlow (R). Louisiana has six House seats, two of which are held by Democrats.

As Gov. Ron DeSantis presumably prepared a new congressional map, his critics are bracing to sue over it.

Ellen Freidin, CEO of Fair Districts Now, said any new map considered to draw congressional districts right now would clearly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment passed by Florida voters in 2010. She still wonders whether a map will be produced ahead of a Special Session this week, and can’t imagine a legal justification for it right now.

“As far as I’m concerned, no map that would pass that would be legally appropriate,” she said. “There is no reason to pass a new map. We have a map that was approved by more than one court after it was passed in 2022.”

But nationwide, politicians expect DeSantis and the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature to approve new cartography, which may be a final volley in the redistricting wars waged in red and blue states over the past year. Lawmakers have made clear they expect the Governor to take the lead on the process.

Regardless, Democratic consultants predict that if a map gets passed and signed by DeSantis, lawsuits will be filed immediately.

“I am expecting a challenge, and there better be,” said Matt Isbell, a Democratic data consultant. “If there isn’t a challenge filed the second he signs a map, I am going to be furious, because there is nothing they can propose that is not just outright partisan gerrymandering.”