This brief examines what the Supreme Court's Callais decision means for communities of color, what has already changed in its wake, and what reforms — from state voting rights acts to proportional representation — can meet this moment.
"The Court has effectively stripped Black, Latino, Native American, Asian American and other voters of color of the most powerful protection against racial discrimination in redistricting."
In a new report, Stand Up Mobile, Dēmos, and Southern Coalition for Social Justice expose the barriers pushing more than 815,000 Alabamians out of the electoral process — and offer commonsense solutions to bring them back in.