Drawn Out

David Gans is Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights & Citizenship Program at the Constitutional Accountability Center. In this episode, we discussed voting rights and redistricting, with an emphasis on the Louisiana v. Callais case that is set to be reargued before the Supreme Court on October 15, 2025.

OTHER LINKS
--Merrill v. Milligan (later retitled Allen v. Milligan) oral argument
--Allen v. Milligan opinion
--Wikipedia on the Voting Rights Act of 1965
--"Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: Vote dilution and vote deprivation," SCOTUSblog
--"Court asks for new briefs in Louisiana redistricting case", by Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog
--"How the Supreme Court made racial gerrymandering easier in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP," League of Women Voters Blog
--"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as a leading dissenter in an era of Trump," by John Fritze, at CNN

MUSIC CREDITS (all songs from Free Music Archive, and each song carries the "cc by" license)
--"The Trail," by Unheard Music Concepts
--"Breath," by Kirk Osamayo
--"Anti-Chill," by Jangwa
--"Post Drone," by Uuriter
--"Cello," by Ketsa
--"Caress me to sleep," by rui