HASSAN KANU THE newest U.S. Supreme Court justice made waves in one of her first days on the bench when she cited legislative history from the 1800s to point out that it’s permissible to consider race when drawing electoral maps. Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson said on October 4 that the Voting Rights Act was enacted explicitly to protect minority voting rights and is based on race-conscious Constitutional amendments. It’s clear that “the framers themselves adopted the equal protection clause, the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment, in a race-conscious way,” Jackson said, pushing back against conservatives’ long-running argument that the Constitution is “colour-blind.”…