The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday that Louisiana’s 2024 redistricting was unconstitutional because its map was drawn based on race without meeting the extremely limited and strictly-defined legal justifications for race-based redistricting.
In its Louisiana v. Callais Et Al. ruling, the Supreme Court upheld an appeals court ruling that the state’s SB8, which redrew the congressional map to add a minority-majority district in 2024, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Wednesday’s Supreme Court opinion ruled that Louisiana’s new congressional map is, indeed, an unconstitutional gerrymander.
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