Senate Resolution 400 Printer's Number 2074

PENNSYLVANIA, October 27 - series of decisions that reshaped the law governing campaign

finance, voting rights, redistricting, reproductive freedom,

firearms regulation and presidential power, including Shelby

County v. Holder (2013), Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), Dobbs v.

Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), New York State Rifle

& Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (2022) and Trump v. United

States (2024); and

WHEREAS, On April 29, 2026, in Louisiana v. Callais, the

Supreme Court, by a vote of 6 to 3, held that a congressional

district drawn to remedy a violation of section 2 of the Voting

Rights Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-110, 79 Stat. 437) was

unconstitutional and adopted a standard that substantially

narrows the ability of voters to challenge election maps that

dilute their political power; and

WHEREAS, Congress amended section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

of 1965 in 1982, with bipartisan support, to establish a

results-based standard after the Supreme Court's decision in

City of Mobile v. Bolden (1980), and the decision in Louisiana

v. Callais substantially restricts the operation of that

considered judgment of the people's elected representatives; and

WHEREAS, Within days of the decision in Louisiana v. Callais,

states moved to suspend congressional primary elections,

convened special legislative sessions and enacted new

congressional district maps, demonstrating how a single decision

of the Supreme Court can immediately disrupt the administration

of elections in the states; and

WHEREAS, Members of the Supreme Court have been the subject

of public controversy concerning ethics, financial disclosure

and recusal, and the confirmation of justices has become an

increasingly contentious contest because each vacancy may

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