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The Supreme Court Finally Ends the Racial Districting Game
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A majority of the justices declared that dividing voters by race is ‘odious to a free people.’
By Jed Rubenfeld
04.30.26 — U.S. Politics
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In a blockbuster ruling, the Supreme Court just struck down a Louisiana redistricting map because the state legislature, attempting to comply with the Voting Rights Act, had deliberately created a “majority-minority” district—a district where blacks were a majority. There are many majority-minority congressional districts in other states, similarly draw…

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Jed Rubenfeld
Jed Rubenfeld is a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School, a free speech lawyer, and host of the Straight Down the Middle podcast. He is the author of five books, including the million-copy bestselling novel The Interpretation of Murder, and his work has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives with his wife, Amy Chua, in New York City, and is the proud father of two exceptional daughters, Sophia and Lulu.
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