Louisiana v. Callais · ¶157

Understood in that way, Allen explained just three years ago, “Gingles has governed our Voting Rights Act jurisprudence since it was decided.” Id., at 19. More: “Congress has never disturbed our understanding of § 2 as Gingles construed it.” Ibid. And more: “[W]e have applied Gingles in one § 2 case after another, to different kinds of electoral systems and to different jurisdictions in States all over the country.” Ibid. (citing no fewer than 10 Supreme Court decisions). And yes, still more, this time invoking “stare deci sis”: “[W]e decline to adopt an interpretation of § 2 that would revise and reformulate” the Gingles framework “that has been the baseline of our § 2 jurisprudence for nearly forty years.” 599 U. S., at 26, and n. 3. One might even have thought the matter settled. But see ante, at 91–126.

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