Brian Fitzpatrick Makes the Case for Callais
Brian Fitzpatrick Makes the Case for Callais An argument in support of the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act jurisprudence one is unlikely to hear in academia. Adler | 7.25.2026 11:51 AM There appears to be an academic consensus that the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana in Callais is incorrect. But does this tell us more about the decision or about the legal academy?
- ▪Brian Fitzpatrick Makes the Case for Callais An argument in support of the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act jurisprudence one is unlikely to hear in academia.
- ▪Adler | 7.25.2026 11:51 AM There appears to be an academic consensus that the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana in Callais is incorrect.
- ▪But does this tell us more about the decision or about the legal academy?
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Brian Fitzpatrick Makes the Case for Callais An argument in support of the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act jurisprudence one is unlikely to hear in academia. Jonathan H. Adler | 7.25.2026 11:51 AM There appears to be an academic consensus that the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana in Callais is incorrect. But does this tell us more about the decision or about the legal academy? Brian Fitzpatrick raises this question in a SCOTUSBlog essay "The Case for Callais." Fitzpatrick's essay begins: This publication has been inundated with essays by academics critical of Louisiana v. Callais, but has not published a single one in defense of it. So I decided to take it on in my column. After all, I am pretty sure Justice Antonin Scalia would have approved of the decision.
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