BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana postpones May 16 House primaries after US Supreme Court rolls back Voting Rights Act.

It’s also a strange effect of the asymmetry of the Purcell “doctrine”: if a court stopped LA’s primaries to implement a new map to remedy discrimination, SCOTUS would immediately stay the order for changing the rules during an election. But states are free to change rules midstream to discriminate.

My latest @npr.org story: The Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress by weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

Again, do a thought experiment: if you knew nothing about politics except that two parties have about 50-50 support, you’d expect them to have 50-50 support evenly across all racial groups. The giant gaps in support on racial lines show parties are tied up with race. SCOTUS willfully ignored this.

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

Just putting it in perspective. The vast majority of recent successful Section 2 cases have been (1) in the South and (2) at the local level.

When I took Election Law in fall 2014, @heathergerken.bsky.social joked that it used to be a 4-credit course but after Shelby County it was now 3, and with the dismantling of campaign finance it could become a 2-credit course. After Rucho, Brnovich, and now Callais, what is it, 0.5?

The Court has decided to blind itself to the fact that there’s no reason to think 90% of white voters would support one party in a state and 90% of Black voters support another party if there isn’t something about the parties that’s strongly related to race.

The Callais opinion is the worst of all worlds: pretending to keep Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact while making it functionally impossible to satisfy. All in the name of protecting states’ partisan preferences. And when dealing with congressional maps where Congress’s power is at its apex.

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.