Louisiana v. Callais · ¶89

Second, illustrative maps must meet all the State's legitimate districting objectives, including traditional districting criteria and the State's specified political goals. If the State's aims in drawing a map include a target partisan distribution of voters, a specific margin of victory for certain incumbents, or any other goal not prohibited by the Constitution, the plaintiffs' illustrative maps must achieve these goals just as well. If not, the plaintiffs would fail to demonstrate that the State's chosen map was driven by racial considerations rather than permissible aims. Only by meeting all the State's legitimate objectives can the illustrative maps help to “disentangle race” from politics and other constitutionally permissible considerations. Ibid.

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