This Court has compared race-based districting to segregation of “public parks, . . . buses, . . . and schools,” and warned that we “should not be carving electorates into racial blocs.”
Judicial Watch announced today it filed in the U.S. Supreme Court an amici curiae (friend of the court) brief along with the Allied Educational Foundation (AEF), asking the court to eliminate woke, race-based congressional districting and ban the use racial preferences in drawing up “majority minority” congressional districts.
Judicial Watch and AEF ask the court to affirm a lower court ruling which would prevent specifically crowding minority voters into congressional districts.
This Judicial Watch amici brief comes in the case Louisiana v. Phillip Callais et al. (No. 24-109), which is on appeal from the U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana where the lower court ruled 2-1 to stop the use of a racially-drawn congressional map for future elections.
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