In a sweeping 6-3 decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana’s congressional map with a second majority-Black district is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais (No. 24-109) delivers a major victory for Republicans by sharply curtailing the Voting Rights Act’s ability to compel the creation of predominantly Black or Hispanic districts – a development that could help the GOP protect and expand its House majority in the 2026 midterms and beyond.
Writing for the Court, Justice Samuel Alito held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, properly interpreted, did not require Louisiana to draw the additional majority-Black district in Senate Bill 8. Because the state’s use of race was not justified by a compelling interest, the map violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Millions of non black people have had their representation and voices taken from them in these racially gerrymandered states for 46 years. This was long overdue!
It’s a huge win for America, not just Republicans.
The party that fought for slavery, created Jim Crow laws, gave us the Great (Welfare) Society, then carved voting districts in contested states against common rules and still had to manufacture votes to win is now in much-deserved peril. It’s become the party of The Party, prolonging its existence only through deceit, thievery, murder and being generally annoying everywhere they go..