Does Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which specifically forbids the creation of racially proportional congressional districts, require states to create congressional districts in equal proportion to the state’s minority population? 

If that question seems ridiculous because the answer is obviously “no,” it doesn’t mean that the Left is not willing to raise it. It is exactly what lawyers sympathetic to the Democratic Party argued in front of the Supreme Court on Oct. 15. Fortunately, the six originalist and textualist members of the court seemed unimpressed.

After the 2020 census, Louisiana redrew its congressional map, creating five districts with majorities of Republican voters and one district with a majority of Democrats. Democratic Party activist Press Robinson sued the state, claiming that the new congressional map was racist since only one of the districts had a majority of black voters, whereas the state is nearly a third black.

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