Posted on 08/17/2025 7:59:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The battle between Texas and Democrat states over gerrymandering seems likely to touch on the biggest driver of Democrat gerrymandering which fundamentally altered the political balance of power in state after state. Louisiana v. Callais is likely headed for a big Supreme Court decision that will fundamentally change how the Voting Rights Act enforces minority districts.
There’s nothing to celebrate about the 60th anniversary of the VRA, a civil rights era relic which long ago stopped fighting segregation and instead enforced partisan gerrymandering with no end in sight. When the Supreme Court began allowing VRA ‘monitoring’ of elections in some states to sunset, Democrats cried that segregation and slavery were about to come back.
But for all the talk of democracy and racism, Louisiana v. Callais shows what keeping the zombie VRA alive is really about. The case is about whether federal courts can force Louisiana to create two Democrat congressional seats under the guise of creating two black seats. It’s a common form of gerrymandering that uses race as a trojan horse for mandating Dem seats.
When heavily gerrymandered Democrat states like California, New York and Illinois eliminate Republican seats, that’s not seen as a Voting Rights Act violation even though much as Democrat seats are disproportionately minority, Republican seats are disproportionately white.
Democrats are not fighting to keep the VRA alive because they care about black people, but because they care about maintaining the racially gerrymandered seats produced by VRA abuses. A New York Times column by Jamelle Bouie complained that “the current Supreme Court’s vision of a rigidly colorblind Constitution” would lead it to reject the notion that the Constitution mandates majority black and therefore Democrat districts. But if the issue were about racial disenfranchisement, Democrats would try to boost the power of black voters by making them a crucial swing bloc in key races instead of apportioning guaranteed seats to senile members of the Congressional Black Caucus who hardly bother running anymore.
Over in Texas, at the center of a national gerrymandering civil war, did the increasingly demented Rep. Al Green, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last year, only to be replaced by Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died this year do any more for black people than their white opposite numbers have done for white people? The amount of scandals, ethics violations and criminal investigations that follow Congressional Black Caucus members is ample evidence of that. The average age of CBC leaders with a lifetime sinecure is in the 70s.
Abusing the VRA to create minority seats for Democrats who couldn’t lose an election unless they were actually locked up for their criminal careers didn’t empower black people, it empowered the Democrats. And that racial gerrymandering gave Democrats guaranteed seats.
The underlying question being asked 60 years later in Louisiana v. Callais is whether black people can be represented by representatives from other races, and whether the same is true for all of America’s other racial, ethnic and religious groups. Despite reams of critical race theory propaganda, the 1619 Project, the career of lucrative literary racists like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi, and the BLM riots, there’s no reason to believe in racially segregated districts.
If having white people represent districts with black voters in it was really unthinkable, how can the Democrats justify the career of Rep. Steve Cohen, who has represented a majority black district, along with Rep. Shri Thanedar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and vice versa, quite a few of the younger black Democrats have been elected from majority white congressional districts.
Democrats don’t actually believe that black districts need black representatives, or they would have long ago booted third world carpetbaggers like Tlaib and Thanedar, along with the loathsome Cohen who once bragged that he was an honorary black man because he was driving a broken down car and dating his own daughter. What they do believe is that black districts are more likely to elect Dems of whatever race and so they gerrymander them.
The Voting Rights Act long ago turned into illegal racial gerrymandering and if more of it is chipped away, it will make it possible for Texas to determine districts for political, not racial reasons, and while gerrymandering may not be ideal, the only thing worse than depriving people of political power, forcing them into laughably shaped districts and denying them representation, for their political views is doing all that because of their race. And that’s what the VRA has been doing.
No one is entitled to a congressional seat on account of their race. That notion is as blatantly racist as the abuses that originally led to measures like the Voting Rights Act. Despite the best effort of a civil rights movement that long soured from opposing segregation to supporting it, the whole point of desegregation is, as Martin Luther King said, is choosing content of character over skin color. And content of character does not have a guaranteed two seats in Louisiana.
Or anywhere else.
There are genuine solutions to gerrymandering. They include outlawing districts shaped like a frightened snail trying to escape from an earthquake. Texas has upped the ante for either escalating gerrymandering or negotiating a compact to end the gerrymandering arms race. And if the Supreme Court rules wisely in Louisiana v. Callais, it can help end racial gerrymandering.
The best way to end racism, segregation, racial discrimination and all the other baskets of racial ills is to stop practicing it. The opposite of racism isn’t anti-racism, it’s non-racism. A multiracial Supreme Court has the opportunity to end one of the final vestiges of actual systemic racism.
And send the message that the right to vote isn’t a racial entitlement, it’s an American one.
Why is Gerrymandering permitted?
What is another way to determine voting districts? By county lines? Straight lines?
Inquiring minds…
This seems a quite a fine explanation of why the "walkaway" movement and other current phenomenon like alternative media with black conservatives voices being found more easily are annoying the Democrat Party (and some allies in the RINO class).
Modern accusations of racism are a strategy of the actual racists -- the political Left.
As Biden taught us the definition of "black" today ---
Biden tells African American radio host: ‘You ain’t black’ if you have trouble deciding between Trump and me CNBC, 22 May 2020Although the Lefty media tried walking that back, it was and remains a clear Democrat stance.
I’ve always thought that districts should be as rectangular as possible. Start with a vertical line as far west as possible — then push that line to the east until you enclose the correct number of voters. Then make an other vertical line and start moving that one east. Or do horizontal lines. If a vertical slice seems to have too many people, dice it up with one or more horizontal lines. I see no reason why a city shouldn’t be cut through once or even twice. Don’t think about outcomes. Don’t think about people. Just think population numbers, and try to enclose 500,000 people (or whatever) in a box.
There are many ways, but if it is based on race or party registration then it is done to sway the election results.
It took about 40 years for it to start....1812. Both parties had chances to reform...neither wanted to ‘fix’ it.
Best answer....tell the states that you get 10 points to create a district. You can do square shapes, triangle shapes, and L-shapes/M-shapes.
I’d like to see voting districts created by minimizing total district boundary length within a state. Won’t ever happen, though.
President Trump Says Putin Told Him He Won the 2020 Election and That
No Country Has Mail-In Voting “He Said You Lost It Because of Mail in Voting”
In Michigan alone, voter fraud is rampant:
<><>Israeli Addresses Registered Many “Permanent Absentee Voters” from a Single Mi Coffee Shop
<><>Mi Dem Secy of State Jocelyn Benson is known for the most corrupt voter rolls in the nation.
<><>320,000 identified “ghost” voters on Michigan’s voter rolls…
<><>middle-aged women registered to vote at Michigan State U’s all-male fraternity houses...
<><>votes being cast from addresses that don’t exist
<><>dead voters galore...
<><>at least 16 KNOWN foreigners registered and VOTED in 2024.
<><>Mi known for precincts where over 100% voted.
Michigan serves as the model for how dirty voter rolls and and corrupt top election officials can cause an entire nation to question the validity of election results.
On July 25, 2025, the Civil Rights division of the US Department of Justice demanded that SOS Benson respond to their request for documents related to the state’s voter registration processes. The letter asked her to explain Duplicate registrations (45.7% of all transactions), low removal rates of ineligible voters, potential violations of federal voter ID laws and Compliance with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) & Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
Benson, who has been term-limited and is now running in the Democrat primary for governor of Michigan, was given 14 days to comply. She either refused to comply or ignored the DOJ’s request....
America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC to “properly” represent the citizenry.
Anytime you hear a Dem whine about “gerrymandering,” ponder this:
<><>9 blue states have 32-48% Republican voters but have ZERO reps in the US House
<><>California, Illinois, NY, Md, NJ and Oregon have 34%-46% GOP voting
<><>yet Republicans have only some 20% of seats.
<><>If you republish the 2020 census and correct the miscounts, it changes everything.
<><>Texas alone was off by 560,000.
<><>Reapportionment without counting illegals would shift power to rural red areas
<><>this would make it harder for Dems to gerrymander.
<><>Dems have gerrymandered the vote beyond recognition
<><>they will resort to anything to maintain their advantage
<><> Democrats rigged the 2020 census by including illegal aliens...
<><>reports show they fought tooth and nail to include illegal aliens in the census.
<><>20-30 of House Democrat seats wouldn’t exist but for illegal aliens.
<><>Biden signed E/O 13986 on day one of his presidency.
<><>That executive order commanded illegals to be counted in the census.
<><>Biden was corruptly gerrymandering the whole country for the Democrats.
Texas redistricting is taking just a small corrective step against a Dem
ocean of fraud, an ocean of abuse by the corrupt Democrat Party.
It’s about time, but wake me when black leaders - NOT congresscritters - are asking the same questions about democrats.
Or worse.
I think county boundaries and natural geographical things like rivers, lakes, and creeks. Any sort of rectangular areas should be "squarish", not a rectangle 300 miles long by 10 miles long.
How about simple, contiguous population count, with the constraining factor of the overall circumference of the shape or form as related to a center of that shape or form?
Equal representation based on population and distance from any "center." Could be done by basic math, and without concern for race and other "factors."
Mostly because there’s no mandated method of setting borders. That was something I was thinking an Article V convention could look at. It should be you start at Point A & draw out a box that encompasses the appropriate number of citizens. Then start a second box B & so on. Being able to draw squiggly lines all over the place is ridiculous.
Finally!!!!!
We get to go after the reason so many Democrats are in Congress. The stupid voting rights act, should have been named, the Democrats in Congress act.
“The underlying question being asked 60 years later in Louisiana v. Callais is whether black people can be represented by representatives from other races, and whether the same is true for all of America’s other racial, ethnic and religious groups.”
Odd is it not about South Carolina? It is 62% white and elected Tim Scott a conservative black man. He won his election by 62.9%. He only got about 14% of the black vote. Both whites and blacks voted ideology and not color. A white can represent blacks. White liberals in the Northeast get the majority of the black vote. Senator Tim Scott got the majority of the white vote in South Carolina.
The irony of the Texas redistricting battle is the proposed districts are more compact and create more Hispanic majority districts. The deMS-13s are fighting it because the Hispanics are breaking heavily Republican, thus creating 5 more red districts.
Just like everything Trump, the Dems will fight to eliminate racial gerrymandering all the way to SCOTUS. They are likely to receive very little resistance. It’s funny how that works.
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So, Biden is saying undecideds aren’t black, but those who decided for Biden or Trump are black.
There are genuine solutions to gerrymandering. They include outlawing districts shaped like a frightened snail trying to escape from an earthquake.
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