The Supreme Court sent a Mississippi voting rights case back to a lower court based on its Louisiana v. Callais ruling on race-based gerrymandering.
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"This case presents only the question of Section 2’s private enforceability, which our decision in Louisiana v. Callais … did not address," Jackson dissented, referencing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
"Thus I see no basis for vacating the lower court’s judgment. " The Supreme Court last month limited the scope of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which restricts how states draw districts affecting minority voters, in its ruling in the case of Louisiana v. Callais. Louisiana v.
Callais centered on whether Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which had added a second majority-Black district, amounted to an unconstitutional racial Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gives a joint lecture, as part of the Flannery Lecture series, at the Ceremonial Courtroom at the U.S. Courthouse on March 9, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Though the justices acknowledged that compliance with the Voting Rights Act can be considered by states as a compelling interest in redistricting, they said that it did not require Louisiana to add the creation of a second, majority Black district, siding with a lower court that had also blocked the state's use of the map.
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