The Supreme Court’s decision to throw out Louisiana’s congressional maps — and weaken the Voting Rights Act in the process — is throwing a wrench into an already-turbulent midterm cycle as more states prepare to hold their primaries in the coming weeks.

Louisiana officials announced they would be delaying congressional primaries — slated to start next month — in response to the high court’s decision on Wednesday that the Bayou State’s House map was an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”

Some Republicans are already pushing to make last-minute changes elsewhere, too, including in Tennessee and potentially Alabama.

But experts warn that changing congressional maps and primary dates months before the November elections will create a host of problems for candidates, election officials and voters at a time when public trust in elections is dwindling.

“It will also have an impact on just how people view democracy — not deriving from the authority of the voters, but more just one big game to be manipulated,”…