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Voting Rights Act Could Be Undercut Following Supreme Court Hearing
If the Supreme Court justices determine that lawmakers may not consider race in drawing district maps, the repercussions for the country’s political balance could be widespread.
“The issue, as you know, is that this court’s cases in a variety of contexts have said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time, sometimes for a long period of time — decades in some cases — but that they should not be indefinite and should have an endpoint.” “I think the results would be pretty catastrophic. If we take Louisiana as one example: Every congressional member who is Black was elected from a V.R.A. opportunity district. We only have the diversity that we see across the South, for example, because of litigation that forced the creation of opportunity districts under the Voting Rights Act.” “It is time to reach a question this court has never reached, and hold that Section 2 alone is no compelling interest for racially gerrymandering citizens like the appellees today. The court should affirm and direct the district court to order a remedial map in time for the 2026 elections.”
If the Supreme Court justices determine that lawmakers may not consider race in drawing district maps, the repercussions for the country’s political balance could be widespread.
By McKinnon de Kuyper and Mimi Dwyer
October 15, 2025
