United States of America, Amicus Curiae
The United States is an amicus in this case because it involves issues of federal and constitutional law. The following is excerpted from the Supplemental Amici Curiae Brief for Appellees as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 24, 2025. This court requested supplemental briefing on whether the state’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.” The answer to that question is yes. Lower courts have repeatedly interpreted this court’s framework from Thornburg v. Gingles (1986) to require states to draw district lines where race predominates over neutral districting principles as a…
