Louisiana v. Callais · ¶3

Held: Because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State's use of race in creating SB8, and that map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Pp. 107–126. (a) The Constitution almost never permits a State to discriminate on the basis of race, and such discrimination triggers strict scrutiny. The Court's precedents have identified “only two compelling interests” that *Together with No. 24–110, Robinson et al. v. Callais et al., on appeal

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