Supreme Court narrows Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Court struck the state's congressional map and substantially rewrote Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, weakening protections against race-based vote dilution. Brennan Center described the ruling as 'devastating' for minority voters.
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Brennan Center for Justice
trust 0.92“Brennan Center: 'The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down Louisiana's congressional map and substantially rewrote Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, undermining protections against race discrimination.'”
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“The Voting Rights Act is one of the most important pieces of legislation in American history. Narrowing it does not return us to neutral first principles — it returns us to a question we already answered.”
Steven Calabresi
Co-founder of the Federalist Society; longtime originalist legal scholar.
Calabresi has publicly defended the VRA's constitutional grounding even as other originalists have criticized portions of it. Federalist Society writings
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