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Democrats and voting rights activists also anticipate that the court will order new congressional maps to replace the current, heavily gerrymandered map passed by GOP legislators, which gives Republicans a 6-2 edge in seats.

Twelve Louisiana voters challenged the new map in federal court last spring, and the court scrapped the configuration, ruling that the district created an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Wikler also argued that a right-wing court could restore gerrymandered legislative maps and influence future election rules and certification fights.

The court has delivered a series of democracy-damaging decisions that have unleashed billions in dark money, gutted the Voting Rights Act, and protected and enabled coast-to-coast gerrymanders of U.S.

Partisan gerrymandering is once again a huge reason why the right will hold the chamber.