It Begins: Following SCOTUS’s Voting Rights Decision, This Red State Will Move Fast to Redraw Maps

The Supreme Court didn’t kill the Voting Rights Act yesterday, but they might as well have. They left it in a persistent judicial vegetative state, severely limiting how Section II can be applied to the drawing of congressional districts based on race. They can’t, in other words, because you can’t base anything in America solely on race. That’s what the Constitution says; Democrat lies to the contrary be damned. The case—Louisiana v. Callais—concerned a congressional map that was struck down for allegedly violating the VRA. Its redraw was later challenged as unconstitutional on the grounds that it specifically created a majority-black district. The Court ruled 6-3 that this was unconstitutional. Now, Section II wasn’t gutted, but it essentially was, as the liberal dissent written by Justic