VOTING RIGHTS VULNERABLE: The 45th President’s DOJ Prepares to Dismantle Minority Districts After Landmark SCOTUS Win
VOTING RIGHTS VULNERABLE: The 45th President’s DOJ Prepares to Dismantle Minority Districts After Landmark SCOTUS Win
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At exactly 10:02 a.m. Eastern Time on a humid Friday morning in May 2026, the bedrock of American electoral law shifted. The Supreme Court of the United States released its opinion in Louisiana v. Callais (Docket No. 24-109), a decision that legal historians are already calling the most devastating blow to voting rights since the end of Reconstruction.
In an 87-page opinion authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Court’s conservative supermajority effectively neutralized Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the very provision that has, for six decades, prevented states from “cracking and packing” minority voters to dilute their political power.
The ruling was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Thomas. Justice Clarence Thomas, in a chilling separate concurrence, went even further, suggesting that the Constitution only protects the act of casting a ballot, not the value of the vote itself.
The dissent, a 64-page broadside led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, did not mince words:
“The Court today does not interpret the Voting Rights Act. It dismantles it. And it does so by calling the dismantling a ‘clarification.’”
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