Salon: Supreme Court ruling could let GOP add 19 House seats and “clear the path for a one-party system”
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This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on October 8, 2025.
The case that the Supreme Court will be hearing stems from Louisiana’s latest congressional map, which a federal court struck down in 2022 for illegally diluting Black voting strength. To comply, state lawmakers drew a second majority-Black district, expanding representation for roughly one-third of Louisiana’s population. But conservative challengers sued, arguing that using race as a central factor, even to fix a proven racial imbalance. constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. In April, the Alliance for Justice warned that “if the court strikes down Louisiana’s congressional maps,” it would gut Section 2, “effectively dismantling one of the last remaining tools to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment’s promise of racial equality at the ballot box.”