Justice Alito sets the Voting Rights Act back on track:
Justice Alito Cleans the Augean Stable of Faux Voting Rights Precedents
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais may dramatically alter congressional districts in Southern states. Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Samuel Alito unraveled decades of confusing and misguided caselaw construing the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) to hold that states may not engage in racial gerrymandering—or be forced to do so by federal courts—when drawing congressional districts. The Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause forbids race-based discrimination, Alito pointedly declared, preventing Section 2 of the VRA from being interpreted to require the creation of “majority-black” districts to comply with the VRA.
Go and read; it’s fairly in-depth and explains clearly why it’s not disenfranchising minorities, and in fact is correcting vast overreach that’s been part and parcel of American electoral politics since the 1960’s.
Now if we could just get this article into the hands of the Indiana Senate, maybe they’d recognize that there is no statutory requirement to guarantee André Carson a seat in Congress in perpetuity. Certainly there’s no moral requirement to guarantee him a seat anywhere, except perhaps in Hell.