I’ve written about some of the big issues approaching the Supreme Court’s fall docket on issues of redistricting. Judging from yesterday’s order in Louisiana v. Callais — the case the Court put off from this term to rehear in the fall — the justices appear ready to take up the big constitutional game: “The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question. . . : Whether the State’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.” In other words: Is Justice Clarence Thomas right that the Court’s Voting Rights Act precedents are pushing states to segregate voters by race in ways that are unconstitutional? The order sets the briefing to be completed by the first week of October, allowing for an early argument.