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Posted on 05/03/2026 5:02:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The implications of the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais overturning race-based voting districts are far more profound and far-reaching than anyone has yet realized.
This week, the Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, ended decades of race-engineering in how congressional districts are drawn. The opinion is likely not only to benefit Republicans by increasing their representation in Congress, but it also should end racial engineering in a multitude of local institutions, to the benefit of all. It signals the beginning of the end for progressive governance, begun by President Woodrow Wilson (ironically, a segregationist), whose vision conflicts with the Constitution.
Thirty-one years ago, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that racial gerrymandering -- defended as a means for ensuring proportional electoral results according to race -- should not continue.
In my view, our current practice should not continue. Not for another Term, not until the next case, not for another day. The disastrous implications of the policies we have adopted under the Act are too grave; the dissembling in our approach to the [Voting Rights] Act too damaging to the credibility of the Federal Judiciary. The “inherent tension” -- indeed, I would call it an irreconcilable conflict -- between the standards we have adopted for evaluating vote dilution claims and the text of the Voting Rights Act would itself be sufficient in my view to warrant overruling the interpretation of § 2 set out in Gingles. When that obvious conflict is combined with the destructive effects our expansive reading of the Act has had in involving the Federal Judiciary in the project of dividing the Nation into racially segregated electoral districts, I can see no reasonable alternative to abandoning our current unfortunate understanding of the Act.
It did, however, continue until this week.
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What will the blue states do now?
The original Constitution—its structure, its Preamble, and especially the Bill of Rights—already contains the universal architecture of American freedom. Every amendment added afterward, even restorative ones, inevitably alters that original balance and therefore risks weakening freedom for some portion of the population.
The Preamble establishes the Constitution’s universal intent: justice, liberty, and the protection of rights for all CITIZENS. The first ten amendments operationalize that intent with specific, enforceable limits on government power, preventing the very abuses described in the Declaration of Independence. This framework is complete and universal.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were necessary only because the nation violated the Constitution’s purpose, not because the original design was insufficient. Yet even these restorative amendments reshaped the legal environment for all citizens, because any constitutional change redistributes authority between individuals, states, and the federal government.
Structural amendments that go beyond restoring natural rights—such as those altering representation, taxation, or federal power—shift the system further from its original universal design.
Thus, once the Constitution’s original principles are applied universally, additional amendments become not only unnecessary but potentially destabilizing.
That first sentence reds as if the original constitution included the bill of rights, which of course it did not.
If blacks want special districts carved out for themselves they can go move to Liberia, which was created just for them. The entire country has ONLY black districts.
touche
Lets say the black caucus loses half it’s membership. Once the initial racism charges are made people will forget because they’ve been saying it too long-gets old.
November 2026 will soon be behind us. 2028-What happens if the caucus then gets bigger with most of them being republican?
you mean besides scream racism?
The cure to past racism is not current racism.
“What will the blue states do now?”
They will pander harder. I don’t know how though. There is only so much free stuff to hand out. The media fear machine has been in overdrive for a while, so not much more they can do there. My hope is they will just lose and fade away.
They already have a work-around...it’s called cheating.
Thanks…
The civil rights laws were enacted to eliminate racial discrimination, not to mandate it — in voting, employment, or any other area.
The congressional black caucus will exclude black Republicans as they are acting white and are therefore racially ineligible.
When are the Dems starting the “non-violent” riots?
American citizens who are not insane had big wins this week, while the INSANE AMERICAN CITIZENS (aka Democrats) lost bigly... 😀
You know the Dhimmicraps will find a way to do it anyway.
They'll gerrymander red districts?? 🤣
Sounds like “equality” is being enforced by this decision - isn’t that what the left keeps screaming that they want?
Their hypocritical definition of “equity” and “equality” are anything that favors them.
I wonder if there is enough govt money to throw around to start the riots?
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