Nearly 40 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Thornburg v. Gingles (1986), requiring states to consider race when drawing districts under the Voting Rights Act. That decision set in motion a deeply flawed standard, one that still binds states like Louisiana to an unworkable and unjust framework.
Today, nearly four decades later, that federal mandate continues to tie our hands, locking us into a system that penalizes states regardless of the path we choose.
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