On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court entered a devastating ruling dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. For the next several weeks, I will be sharing a video series breaking down the case, Louisiana v. Callais, and discussing what we can do next. 

To fully understand Callais, we must first understand how this case began. Callais began with Robinson v. Ardoin, a case that actually remedied race discrimination in Louisiana’s redistricting process. Despite the fact that African Americans make up 30% of the Louisiana’s population, Louisiana drew only one out of six of its new congressional maps as majority-minotrity districts. 

Black voters argued that Louisiana was discriminating on the basis of race and called for a second majority-minority district. The federal court in Ardoin agreed with the Black voters and ordered Louisiana to draw two majority-minority districts. Elections under the new map were held and two African-Americans were elected to the U.S. Congress. 

A group of non-white voters then challenged those remedial maps and their case became Louisiana v. Callais. I’ll explain the court’s ruling in Callais in my next post. 

Check out more of my discussion on this topic with civil rights attorney Angela Groves in this video. Share this post with a friend who wants to be informed about the recent Callais ruling.