The Supreme Court has just intervened on behalf of Republican state officials and civil rights groups and ruled that the state of Louisiana can use a new congressional map that establishes a second majority black district.

A lower court had previously invalidated the new congressional map. The Supreme Court’s ruling doesn’t weigh in on the merits of the lower court ruling and could hear arguments on it in the future.

Here’s more via the AP:

The order allows the use of a map that has majority Black populations in two of the state’s six congressional districts, potentially boosting Democrats’ chances of gaining control of the closely divided House of Representatives in the 2024 elections.

The justices acted on emergency appeals filed by the state’s top Republican elected officials and Black voters who said they needed the high court’s intervention to avoid confusion as the elections approach. About a third of Louisiana is Black.

The Supreme Court’s order does not deal with a lower-court ruling that found the map relied too heavily on race. Instead, it only prevents yet another new map from being drawn for this year’s elections.

The Supreme Court could decide at a later date to hear arguments over the decision striking down the Louisiana map.

The court’s three liberal justices dissented from Wednesday’s order. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the judges who struck down the latest map should have had the chance to produce a new map before the high court intervened.

The ruling from the Supreme Court was 6-3, with the liberal justices all dissenting.