Georgia Voting Rights Act Remand Reaches Judge Jones: Supplemental Briefs on Callais Due November 19

On 10/20/2026 (order signed), Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia, on remand from the Eleventh Circuit’s August vacatur (2026-08-25–eleventh-circuit-vacates-georgia-section-2-map-rulings-after-callais), asked the parties for supplemental briefs on “any ways in which the Court’s prior judgment may have been changed by the new VRA framework,” due NOVEMBER 19, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. The order adds that the court “may schedule oral arguments or take any other action appropriate at that point.” It sets no hearing and no decision date.

The Eleventh Circuit’s certified mandate, vacating and remanding the Secretary of State’s appeals, was entered on the district docket 10/19/2026. Jones signed an “ORDER making the USCA mandate the judgment of this Court” 10/20/2026. The briefing order was entered the next day.

The docket text is the source: the orders themselves are not in RECAP. The briefing runs past Election Day. Context: 2026-10-20-post-callais-redistricting-status-fl-ga-al-sc.