Callais v. Louisiana

Louisiana v. Callais, consolidated with Robinson v. Callais, 608 U.S. ___ (2026), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision dealing with racial gerrymandering and redistricting in the state of Louisiana following the 2020 United States census. Though the case was first heard during the Supreme Court's 2024–2025 term, it was reargued in the following term on October 15, 2025, with a focus on whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Court, in a 6–3 decision along ideological lines, ruled that Louisiana's new redistricting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Fifteenth Amendment.