The outrage was swift and severe when the U.S. Supreme Court, by an ideologically divided 6-3 vote, recently struck down Louisiana’s majority Black congressional district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Critics lambasted the court for gutting the Voting Rights Act, the federal law that had until recently garnered strong bipartisan support and had ensured Black political representation in the South for more than half a century.
Many analysts see Jim Crow-era disenfranchisement of Black voters on the horizon.
Whether Louisiana v. Callais will wreak this kind of havoc remains to be seen, although some Southern states have already
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