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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: The Supreme Court and a Colorblind Constitution
Description: The Supreme Court recently heard a Louisiana case with sweeping implications for how congressional districts are drawn. The issue: does Louisiana’s map amount to racial gerrymandering. And are majority-minority districts themselves constitutional? It’s hard to argue that dividing Americans by color is anything but discriminatory. These districts were created on the assumption that white voters couldn’t – or wouldn’t – elect minority candidates or represent minority interests. That may have sounded plausible once. But in post-Obama America, that assumption doesn’t hold up. The Roberts Court has—rightly—embraced the idea of a “Colorblind Constitut...