Nearly 40 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Thornburg v. Gingles (1986), requiring states to consider race when drawing districts under the Voting Rights Act. That decision set in motion a deeply flawed standard, one that still binds states like Louisiana to an unworkable and unjust framework. Today, nearly four decades later, that federal mandate continues to tie our hands, locking us into a system that penalizes states regardless of the path we choose.

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear Louisiana v. Callais , a case that could finally rein in decades of judicial overreach in redistricting and return power to where it belongs — the states and their elected legislatures. At issue is whether federal courts have taken Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act far beyond its original intent. What began as a law to prevent discrimination in voting has increasingly been used to force states to sort voters by race, creating districts e

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