Supreme Court Rules Louisiana's Congressional Map Violates Equal Protection Clause in 6-3 Decision

U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision on Louisiana’s congressional map in the case Louisiana v. Callais, finding that the maps violated the equal protection clause. The decision was along partisan lines, with Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion.

The court ruled that section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not require states to draw majority-minority districts. The Supreme Court invalidated a majority-black congressional district as an illegal gerrymander and ruled against a group of Black Louisiana voters in their defense of a voting map that added a second Black-majority congressional district in the state.

The voting map created two majority-Black districts out of six in Louisiana, where the population is one-third Black. In 2022, Louisiana lawmakers passed a redistricting plan that limited Black voters to a single congressional district out of six. Civil-rights organizations sued Louisiana over the 2022 map and won on the basis that it violated the Voting Rights Act.

A lower court ordered Louisiana to create a new Black-majority district, which the state did. A group then sued Louisiana arguing that the new map was unconstitutional because it sorted voters by race. Terri Sewell and Shomari Figures decried the Supreme Court decision as sending the nation backwards.

Terri Sewell and Shomari Figures are at risk of losing their seats in Alabama’s Black congressional districts. S. troops deployed in Germany.

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