My Race Isn’t Your Political Forecast

Originally published by The Hill

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court sat for a re-argument of what promises to be one of its most important cases in recent memory: Louisiana v. Callais.

As I often tell people, I am not a lawyer. But I am Ohio’s former secretary of state, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and co-chairman of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board. I currently provide counsel and leadership to numerous organizations on the issue of election integrity, both here in the U.S. and around the world. I’m also someone who over my seven decades on this earth, has seen how America has changed first-hand, from the frontlines of the civil rights movement.

That’s why I say the case of Louisiana v. Callais, which asks the court to decide whether race can continue to serve as a lawful proxy for political identity, is one of the most consequential constitutional questions of the modern day, with national implications that could affect congressional maps in almost every state.

At issue is Louisiana’s congressional map, which was redrawn after litigation to include a second majority-Black district, under the Voting Rights Act.

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