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Posted on 05/04/2026 10:24:41 AM PDT by John Semmens
This week in a 6-3 ruling, the US Supreme Court struck down a race-based Congressional district map in Louisiana.
Former Vice-President Kamala Harris sharply criticized the Court "for gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Louisiana gerrymander was crucial for ensuring the election of Black Democrats in at least two of the state's Congressional Districts."
Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, called the current Louisiana Congressional District map "an unconstitutional gerrymander. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court's §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids."
Former President Barack Obama also objected to the Supreme Court's ruling, asserting that "this decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act that was intended to ensure that Blacks would always have a majority in some districts of these carefully drawn maps. Right now, the two Black-majority districts elegantly snake their way from the northwest corner to the southeast corner of the state."
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY) claimed "this ruling by this illegitimate Supreme Court strikes a blow against the Voting Rights Act and is designed to undermine the ability of communities of color all across this country to elect their candidate of choice. That is why the first order of business for the Democrat majority of the Congress seated next January must be to fix the court. Our two options under the Constitution would be to impeach the Justices who voted for this decision or to add enough additional Justices to achieve our desired outcome."
In other redistricting news, the Virginia Supreme Court seemed to be skeptical that the referendum that Democrats hastily put on the ballot to gerrymander the state's Congressional Districts followed the state laws regarding how it must be done. Gov. Spanberger (D) claims she is "shocked these fellows are getting so nitpicky over our efforts to restore fairness to our elections. Democrats have a majority in Virginia. We could've proposed a map that guaranteed Democrats would win every district like they do in Massachusetts, but we allowed for Republicans to have a majority in one district so they would still have some voice in Congress from our state. Should the Supreme Court overrule the voters' decision we will have to consider impeaching any Justices that vote for such an outcome."
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“this ruling by this illegitimate Supreme Court “?
Hakeem The Uber-Crazy
THE PISS & MOAN PARTY STRIKES AGAIN!!
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