Posted on 04/30/2026 1:52:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that other states should redraw their congressional maps in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
“The Supreme Court said that in Louisiana’s case, it was blatantly unconstitutional,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju in the Capitol. “And I think that principle applies, probably, in other states as well. And I assume that those governors and legislatures are looking at that closely. We want constitutional maps.”
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Do it to it.
Respect yourself.
We should not hold elections based on a foundation of unconstitutional district maps.
If the other states start this popcorn stocks will skyrocket.
We shouldn’t be making these maps at all. There’s plenty of nerds that have come up with programs to equally split districts with the only bias being contiguous and compact.
Districts should be drawn with equal weight between population and land area, and be as campoaact as possible, and potentially try to respect county lines as possible.
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