Louisiana v. Callais · ¶175

And nothing is special about this majority-minority district; as the Callais requirements have eliminated it today, so they will eliminate other and older ones in the years to come. Recall that this majority-Black district (which is District 6) was Louisiana's second. See supra, at 148. The State's District 2 has had a Black majority since 1983, when a vote-dilution suit forced its creation. If Louisiana were tomorrow to slice up District 2, dispersing its Black residents among the rest, it is hard to see how the now judicially amended Section 2 could stand in the way. The State presumably would assert as its “political goal” an all-Republican congressional delegation; in other words, it would announce a partisan gerrymander. Ante, at 115, 123. And because of the severe racial polarization in the State, that goal would be incompatible with maintaining District 2 as is. So those…

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