A judicial panel has thrown out yet another Louisiana congressional district map, showing again the confusing mess the Supreme Court has made of this matter.
’s congressional redistricting plan on Wednesday, a federal judicial panel implicitly highlighted, yet again, the confusing mess both Congress and theThe back story is convoluted. The Louisiana legislature’s original map after the 2020 census, like the 2010 map that federal courts accepted, contained one district out of six that had a voting population with a black majority.
Two judges on the panel wrote that the dog’s-toy district violated all those guidelines. They said its shape is “awkward and bizarre,” that it shows “uniquely poor compactness,” that its contiguity is “tenuous,” and that economically and culturally its residents’ interests “more often conflict than harmonize.” Furthermore, “Nor does take into account natural boundaries such as the Atchafalaya Basin, the Mississippi River, or the Red River.
Therein lies the problem. Today’s judicial panel wrote that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment has been rightly interpreted to forbid, in most but not all circumstances, any district lines “grounded predominately in race.” Yet the Supreme Court has interpretedof the Voting Rights Act to favor the creation of districts that give minorities the “opportunity” to elect their “candidates of choice,” which the court essentially means of their own race.
So, race-based proportionality may be valid, but it’s not a right, and by the Equal Protection Clause it isn’t allowed. Go figure.
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