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Redistricting at the Crossroads: Louisiana v. Callais and America’s Voting Rights Dilemma

The case asks a deceptively simple but deeply loaded question: What is a legislature to do when the Voting Rights Act (VRA) seems to demand racial considerations, yet the Constitution—by way of Supreme Court precedent—warns that using race as the central factor is itself illegal? Callais turns on the line between what is required, and what is forbidden, in the drawing of American electoral maps.

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