On April 29th, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Louisiana v. Callais that Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black district to prevent racial vote dilution was, paradoxically, an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The ruling ultimately gutted the enforceability of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In Justice Elena Kagan’s words of dissent, the ruling rendered these provisions “all but a dead letter.” By blending the issue and the remed…
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