The Project on Fair Representation, Amicus Curiae
The Project on Fair Representation is a public-interest organization seeking to advance race-neutral rules in education, government action and voting. The following is excerpted from the Amici Curiae Brief for Appellees as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 23, 2025. No one denies that Louisiana intentionally segregated citizens by their race in drawing SB8’s district maps. That use of race violates the Fourteenth Amendment, and neither Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act nor the Fifteenth Amendment can justify this denial of equal protection. First, as this court recently held, states “may never use race as a stereotype…
