Congressional Democrats talk tough about leveling the playing field. Now they’re complaining that the Supreme Court just gave them one. It turns out “fair” meant “rigged in our favor” – and on April 29 the court called their bluff.
Louisiana v. Callais is about ending a 60-year abuse that turned the 1965 Voting Rights Act from a tool for stopping racial discrimination into a weapon for mandating it. Under a warped interpretation of the law’s original purpose, federal courts long forced states to draw congressional maps based on voters’ race.
The result: 144 majority-minority districts, just 23 of which elected Republicans in 2024. Call it what it is: affirmative action for Democratic members of Congress.
Louisiana cried foul in 2024, when a federal court – prompted by the NAACP and a leftist get-out-the-vote group – forced the state to add a second majority-black district to its map. Voters promptly elected a Democrat, 51-38%. In response, Louisiana sued on the grounds that the map was drawn illegally using race as the predominant factor, violating the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
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