Louisiana v. Callais · ¶144

But a Senate subcommittee led by Senator Orrin Hatch objected. It thought the House's amendment would always require racially proportional representation, and advocated keeping Section 2—as construed by Bolden—just as it was. The impasse was resolved by Senator Bob Dole in the Judiciary Committee, through the addition of a subsection codifying the White decision. Recall that White had rejected proportional representation as the standard for vote-dilution claims. See supra, at 136–137. Now Senator Dole—while retaining the House's “results in” language—added a provision to do the same thing. See § 10301(b) (“[N]othing in this section establishes a right to have members of a [racial group] elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population”). And yet more important for present purposes, Senator Dole took language from White to clarify when a State would violate the ban on…

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