The most consequential decision of the upcoming term will be Louisiana v. Callais. At issue is whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — which sometimes requires states to draw majority-minority districts to remedy racial vote dilution — remains constitutional. The case confronts a tension of the court’s own making — between the VRA’s ban on racial discrimination and the court’s expanding limits on race-conscious state action.

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