In a 6-3 ruling authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's race-based congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to argue the Court should have gone even further.
Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network and former clerk to Justice Thomas, joins Jenny Beth Martin to walk through what the ruling does, what it doesn't do, and why it shuts down a multi-million-dollar lawsuit industry that has been forcing red states to redraw their maps for years.
In this segment, Severino covers:
• The 14th and 15th Amendment foundation of the Voting Rights Act
• How decades of overreading the VRA put states in a damned-if-you-do bind
• How Mark Elias and his team turned racial-gerrymandering claims into a national lawsuit machine
• Why Louisiana now has to redraw its lines without considering race
• Justice Thomas's concurring opinion and the case for a colorblind Constitution
• What happens to existing majority-minority districts in other states
This is the kind of plain-English Supreme Court analysis you won't find on cable news.
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00:00 — Louisiana v. Callais: 6-3 Ruling Overview
00:45 — The Voting Rights Act and the Constitutional Tension
02:32 — Mark Elias and the Lawsuit Industry
04:15 — Louisiana Must Redraw Without Race
05:07 — Justice Thomas: Section 2 Shouldn't Apply at All
06:30 — What Happens to Existing Majority-Minority Districts
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