The time has come. The Supreme Court heard arguments regarding what the media is calling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, which has protected race-based congressional apportionment, specifically majority-minority districts. The case stems from Louisiana v. Callais, in which the state was ordered to redraw its congressional map to add another majority-black district. The first attempt was slapped as a Voting Rights Violation, and the latest attempt was challenged as unconstitutional.
In a 6-3 ruling, the Court found the drawing of this district unconstitutional, but did not officially strike down Section II of the Voting Rights Act. We have some nuance here, with the majority trying to tailor a narrow ruling, while the dissenting opinion presents a different interpretation of this case.
“Compliance with Section 2, as properly construed, can provide such a reason. Correctly understood, Section 2 does not impose liability at odds with the Constitution, and it should not have imposed liability on Louisiana for its 2022 map. Compliance with Section 2 thus could not justify the State’s use of race-based redistricting here,” Justice Alito wrote.
But, in Justice Kagan’s dissent, which was joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson, she wrote that this decisions essentially does that: “The new Callais requirements will effectively insulate any practice, including any districting scheme, said by a State to have any race-neutral justification. That justification can sound in traditional redistricting criteria, or else can sound in politics and partisanship. As to the latter, the State need do nothing more than announce a partisan gerrymander.”
This case made Democrats uneasy as it could nearly eliminate them in the South. The process was prolonged, with some claiming this was done to prevent states from redrawing their maps before the 2026 elections.
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But here’s the thing: our Constitution is violated anytime race is used as a determinant factor in anything. It simply cannot be done, and my message to Democrats who have long advocated for race-based districts because it unfairly favored them, this day of reckoning is long overdue.
