Court ruling didn’t harm minority voting rights: Ted Diadiun
The 6-3 ruling says race-based gerrymandering is unconstitutional, and critics warn it could weaken Voting Rights Act protections for minority representation.
- On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its "Louisiana v. Callais" decision, limiting state legislatures' ability to fashion racially compact congressional districts to ensure Black representation.
- The Court's ruling reinterprets Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, shifting the legal focus to intentional racial discrimination—a standard notoriously difficult to prove in court.
- At least 17 jurisdictions now face active legal challenges over voting maps, with litigation spanning North Carolina's Senate map, Washington's state legislative districts, and Pennsylvania school board systems.
- North Carolina state Rep. Rodney Pierce called the ruling a "meaningless law with no teeth," while critics warn local governments may move toward at-large systems to "dismantle as much as they possibly can."
- Maureen Edobor, an assistant law professor at Washington and Lee University, warns that at-large systems allow majorities to win every seat, effectively eliminating minority representation in racially polarized communities.
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John Marshall Harlan of Kentucky was the sole dissenter in the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision. (Wikimedia Commons)“There are obvious echoes between Louisiana v. Callais, in which Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion finished off the [1965 Voting Rights Act]…and the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson decision, in which the court blessed Jim Crow,” Pema Levy wrote in Mother Jones magazine on May 7. “The Roberts court is in many respects a neoc…
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US Supreme Court’s uneven rulings in election lead-up causing chaos, experts say
East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, voters stand in line at an early voting location in 2022. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended Louisiana’s May 16, 2026, party primary elections for six U.S. House districts — after early voting had begun — following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to throw out the state’s existing congressional map. (Photo by Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator.)When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas’ gerrymandered cong…
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