Last week, the Supreme Court all but announced how it would rule on the future of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Jamelle Bouie

The New York Times

Opinion

The case in question, Louisiana v. Callais, which was heard for the first time in March, is a dispute over the drawing of the state’s six congressional districts. Nearly one-third of Louisianans are Black, but in 2022 state lawmakers drew just one district where those Black voters had a reasonable chance of electing a representative of their choice.

In Louisiana, as is true in much of the Deep South, voting is highly polarized by race. Black people tend to vote for Democrats, white people for Republicans. It’s in this environment that Black voters, a distinct and coherent minority, are shut out of political power unless they constitu

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