Cite as: 608 U. S. ____ (2026) 11 Opinion of the Court In Cooper, 581 U. S., at 301, we continued our “long”standing assumption that “complying with the VRA is a compelling interest.” Again, we did not need to resolve this question because a constitutional reading and application of the Act did not require the district at issue. Id., at 306. And again, in Wisconsin Legislature, we once more “assumed that complying with the [Voting Rights Act] is a compelling interest.” 595 U. S., at 401. But because the Wisconsin Supreme Court had not properly analyzed whether the Act required the map at issue, we remanded for the court to “undertake a full strict-scrutiny analysis.” Id., at 406. This was the legal framework in place when the lawsuits involving Louisiana’s congressional districts were filed and litigated in the lower courts. II As noted earlier, the underlying litigation in this suit resulted from Louisiana’s response to the population changes disclosed by the 2020 census. The subsequent reapportionment of House seats among the States left Louisiana with the same number of seats—six—that it had previously been allocated, but due to shifts in population, the State needed to recalibrate its districts. Figure 1. Louisiana’s map from 2013–2022