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Supreme Court signals the end of legalized race-games — hooray!

Hail to the Supreme Court for slapping down the obsessive use of race in drawing electoral lines — recognizing that it has nothing to do with boosting equality, but rather offends the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.

Wednesday’s common-sense 6-3 ruling struck down a Louisiana districting scheme that added a second majority-black House district in the name of complying with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

That act, Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion explained, “did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district” since there was “no compelling interest” to justify such “use of race.”

Indeed, “that map is an unconstitutional gerrymander, and its use would violate the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.”

Sixty years........

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