Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
Mother Jones's long article by Ari Berman traces Cleo Fields' twice-dismantled Louisiana congressional district to argue that the Roberts court's Louisiana v. Callais decision gutted the Voting Rights Act and is ending the Second Reconstruction, much as the Slaughterhouse, Cruikshank, and Plessy rulings undid the first. It reports Republican-led rushes to eliminate majority-Black districts across the South after the ruling and forecasts the loss of more than a dozen such House seats by 2028 and up to 140 minority state legislative districts.
