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On October 15, 2025, during reargument in Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stunned observers by equating Black voters’ unequal political outcomes to physical inaccessibility and bluntly saying “they’re disabled.” The remark wasn’t a slip of the tongue — it was a worldview: a Supreme Court justice openly treating race as a permanent condition that demands government-engineered fixes rather than respecting individual liberty and equal protection. That kind of victimhood rhetoric belongs in a political rally, not on the bench where neutral principles should reign.
This exchange came in a high-stakes challenge to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the same statute conservatives warned would be stretched into a tool for perpetual racial balancing. The Supreme Court reargued the case on October 15, 2025, with a conservative majority signaling skepticism about the decades-long practice of drawing districts by race. If the Court retreats from race-conscious remedies, it’s because the Constitution favors colorblind protections, not social-engineering experiments that cement partisan outcomes.
Justice Jackson’s ADA analogy was more than legally clumsy — it was profoundly insulting to Black Americans and to disabled Americans alike. The ADA protects individuals with physical or mental impairments from real-world barriers to access; it is not a licence to reorder political representation by race or to declare whole communities “disabled” because outcomes don’t match proportional results. Conservatives should be loud in calling out this kind of identity-based thinking, which reduces citizens to immutable victim categories and invites endless government meddling.
Make no mistake: the stakes of this case are national. A ruling that embraces permanent race-based districting under the guise of remedial access would institutionalize racial quotas in our political system and incentivize partisan mapmakers to redraw districts for electoral advantage. The conservative justices’ skepticism during oral argument reflects a healthy respect for the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee and a refusal to let federal law become a vehicle for engineered racial outcomes.
Patriotic Americans who believe in individual dignity and majority rule should not be silent. We must defend a vision of America where people are judged by their character and the law treats everyone equally, not one where a justice lectures the country into seeing entire communities as permanently unequal or “disabled.” This is a moment to stand for colorblind justice, for secure voting rights that protect access without demanding engineered racial results, and for a Supreme Court that returns to reading the Constitution rather than preaching social theory from the bench.
