In Louisiana v Callais, the supreme court has openly considered white Republicans in partisan redistricting In Louisiana v Callais, the supreme court has openly considered white Republicans in partisan redistricting I n 1989, Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice of the supreme court of the United States, wrote a powerful dissent to a landmark ruling that called into question how the court would discern race-consciousness in future cases. The City of Richmond v JA Croson Co asked the court