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The Supreme Court’s Callais Decision Likely to Take Down Another Majority-Minority District, This Time Impacting Native Americans

The Supreme Court’s Callais Decision Likely to Take Down Another Majority-Minority District, This Time Impacting Native Americans

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Callais decision has crippled the 1965 Voting Rights Act Section 2, allowing state legislatures to erase formerly court-mandated majority minority voting districts. African American districts were devastated, but the Eighth Circuit just vacated a previously-upheld fair map for Native American voters in North Dakota.
Louisiana v. Callais Didn’t Just Affect VRA Section 2 Protections for Black Americans; Hispanic, Native, and Asian-American Districts are Impacted, Too.

Louisiana v. Callais Didn’t Just Affect VRA Section 2 Protections for Black Americans; Hispanic, Native, and Asian-American Districts are Impacted, Too.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s seismic April 29th decision that the Equal Protection Clause prohibits using race in redistricting decisions didn’t just affect African American communities in the South. It also eroded the chance for Hispanic, Native, Asian and other majority-minority communities to elect the candidate of their choice, too.