Close watchers of the Supreme Court knew that the conservative supermajority was about to murder what was left of the Voting Rights Act . Wednesday’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais took down Section 2 of the law, clearing the way for racist gerrymandering, because it is now racist to remedy racism . The decision is an affront to the history of the Voting Rights Act, an affront to the history of the United States, and an affront to math. The state of Louisiana, which is around 30 percent Black,