Louisiana v. Callais · ¶196

The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave. Today's decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter. In the States where that law continues to matter—the States still marked by residential segregation and racially polarized voting—minority voters can now be cracked out of the electoral process. The decision here is about Louisiana's District 6. But so too it is about Louisiana's District 2. See supra, at 159–160. And so too it is about the many other districts, particularly in the South, that in the last half-century have given minority citizens, and particularly African Americans, a meaningful political voice. After today, those districts exist only on sufferance, and probably not for long. If other States follow Louisiana's lead, the minority citizens residing there will no longer have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. And minority representation…

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