The tectonic plates of American democracy are shifting, not with the roar of a landslide, but with the quiet, clinical scratching of pens against parchment. Most people are looking toward the headlines for signs of change, but the map of power is being redrawn in the shadows of technical jargon and judicial procedure. At the center of this looming transformation is the Supreme Court case Louisiana v. Callais, a legal battle that masks a profound struggle over the very definition of human representation. If the justices choose to narrow the scope of who truly “counts” in the eyes of the...
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