After Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour attempted to argue that the framers of the Constitution and 14th Amendment did not think in racial terms and that things like the Voting Rights Act was written to be “race-neutral,” the newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson tore the man’s argument apart by pointing out the people who wrote those things expressly stated they did so with race in mind.
Unfortunately, although the Alabama lawyer’s argument falls apart on KBJ’s “progressive originalist” challenge, the law allowing the Alabama legislature to gerrymander districts to minimize the voting power of Blacks is likely to be upheld by this SCOTUS thanks to Clarence Thomas et al.