“I Dissent”: Kagan Rips Supreme Court for Destroying Racial Equality

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to render the Voting Rights Act obsolete.Louisiana v. Callais was first brought to the court in 2025 by a group of white voters, who argued that a congressional map drawn to create a Black-majority district in Louisiana was unconstitutional. The conservative judges ruled that while Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act outlaws race-based gerrymandering, Louisiana’s map did not fit the bill, and in fact unnecessarily employed racial statistics when draw...