On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a 6 to 3 decision that struck a powerful blow for electoral integrity.

In ‘Louisiana vs. Callais’, the justices ruled that the State of Louisiana’s contorted congressional map constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The state had been forced to create a bizarre, snake-shaped district stretching across 200 miles to manufacture a second majority-black congressional seat. The Court declared that race cannot be the predominant factor in drawing electoral districts.

Today, Louisiana is 32.6% black. Yet, the invalidated map carved out two majority-black districts out of six total seats. This was not an organic representation. It was deliberate racial engineering designed to pack black voters — who supported the Democratic presidential candidate at an 86% rate in the 2024 election — into artificially safe seats. SCOTUS correctly held that such heavy reliance on race violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment........

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