Democracy Docket: The Dangerous Cultural Shift Hiding Inside This Voting Rights Case

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May 9, 2026

The right is already using the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais to question whether Black and Latino lawmakers belong in Congress. Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias and Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, unpack what's really happening.

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1. So the assumption is that whites would never elect a Black Representative or Senator?

How did Obama win twice? Not to mention his time in Congress representing the Illinois voters?

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2. The Voting Rights Act

made the election of African Americans to Congress in the South possible. Just look at the lack of African Americans from the south in Congress from the time reconstruction ended to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. That's now being taken away. Illinois is clearly a northern, more progressive state. Targeting African Americans is just the first step. The far right doesn't like women or working people having the right to vote either.