Hansi Lo Wong

No president has the authority to rewrite election law by executive order.

Today is Oklahoma's voter registration deadline for the state's June 16 primary.

Eligible voters in Oklahoma have only hours left to sign up online or in person or get their mail-in application postmarked.

If you are registering by mail, the U.S.

Postal Service recommends that you go to a post office and ask for a free manual postmark at the counter.

In Washington, D.C., eligible voters have until Tuesday to get in their mail-in application or to register online.

But D.C.

voters still have time to register in person during early voting and on the day of D.C.

's primary on June 16th.

If you've already registered to vote, you may want to go to your election official's website and check your status.

Eligible voters can sometimes be removed from lists, especially if they move, change their name, or haven't voted in a while.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has ruled that a second majority black congressional district that a lower court had ordered Louisiana's legislature to draw to get in line with the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional.

This high court ruling reinterprets longstanding protections under the Voting Rights Act Section 2 that have helped make sure racial minority voters are not shut out during redistricting in places where voting is racially polarized.

In the court's majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito says that the focus of Section 2 must be banning, quote, intentional racial discrimination.

which many legal experts say will be hard to prove in court.

Many redistricting experts now expect Republican-controlled state legislatures in the South to eliminate at least some Democratic-represented House districts that were likely protected under the Voting Rights Act, though the timing is unclear.

Anzhi Luang, NPR News.

Eligible voters in Georgia and Kentucky who want to cast ballots in the May 19th primaries have until Monday to register.

West Virginia's registration deadline for its May 12th primary is on Tuesday, and there's still about a week left to register online for Louisiana's primary and to sign up online by mail or in person for the primary in Oregon.

Virginia is holding a special election for a congressional redistricting referendum on Tuesday, and eligible Virginians who have not registered yet can still do so in person at an early voting location or their polling site on Tuesday.