Scott Colom: ‘The Callais decision helped me’
Democracy Docket reports that Democrat Scott Colom won a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, becoming the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction and breaking more than four decades of Republican control after record 2026 midterm turnout. Colom credits his win in part to mobilization after the Supreme Court's Callais decision and Republican efforts to carve up Rep. Bennie Thompson's district, with the NAACP and ACLU among groups that spent months getting voters to the polls.
