Recarving keeps the block and changes the figure. Nothing is thrown out. That
is why the word flatters the thing it describes: it promises continuity while
the shape becomes something else.
The Voting Rights Act was not repealed. The clause reads today the way it read
before. What moved was the test underneath it, and eight days later Tennessee
redrew a map. A reader checking the statute finds the words intact and concludes
the protection is intact. The page is the alibi.
A law can be hollowed without a single letter changing. Read the mechanism, not
the text.
Docket
Louisiana v. Callais, No. 24-109, 608 U.S. ___ (2026), decided April 29, 2026, 6–3. Majority opinion by Alito, J., joined by Roberts, C.J., and Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ. Dissent by Kagan, J., joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, JJ. Holding (slip op. 23): "While that interpretation does not demand a finding of intentional discrimination, it imposes liability only when the circumstances give rise to a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred." The majority's reply to the dissent (slip op. 35): "What must be shown is exactly what the 1982 amendment of §2 called for." Dissent: "Today's decision returns Section 2 to what it was under Bolden" (Kagan, J., dissenting, at 23). Trust tier: primary.
