https://freerepublic.com/tag/commieshasthesads/ en-us Fri, 8 May 2026 22:16:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378387/posts singlecatlady23.bsky.social‪@singlecatlady23.bsky.social‬The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.ransomnote: related information below Click here to skip Grok's explanation why Pearson was barred from attending, and another image of the same post from Imgur.com.Why Was Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson Barred from the Redistricting Meeting?Date: May 6–7, 2026Answer: Justin Pearson was physically prevented from entering because Republican lawmakers closed the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to the public and restricted access following repeated disruptions by protesters and Democratic lawmakers.Key DetailsThe meeting was part of a special legislative... bsky.app https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378387/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 22:16:32 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378399/posts The Alabama House recessed Friday morning after an Alabama redistricting protest erupted in the gallery during debate on the Senate companion redistricting bill, forcing security to clear spectators and escort a woman from the chamber. Protesters in the gallery began chanting and singing during House floor debate on SB1, the Senate version of the special session redistricting legislation. House security and state troopers moved to remove a woman from the gallery as the crowd chanted “stand up, fight back.” Two Democratic lawmakers attempted to intervene as the woman was escorted out. State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) and State Rep. Mary... yellowhammernews.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378399/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 23:45:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378402/posts 🚨Trump Administration BEAST Mode: - Indiana RINO Bloodbath - SCOTUS rules against racist maps - Dems lose racist DEI seats en masse - New GOP seats in Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina - Dems rigged map in Virginia TOSSED - Virginia Senate Leader raised by FBI - Somali fraudsters mass-raided - Dr. Fauci scientist arrested, indicted - Comey indicted, again - ActBlue under investigation - SPLC indicted, hate hoax op exposed - John Brennan under investigation - Fani Willis under investigation - J6 liar Cassidy Hutchinson going down - Peace Deal in Ukraine? - Peace deal... X https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378402/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 23:54:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378403/posts Despite chaos at the courthouse over the special legislative session, Governor Kay Ivey is anticipating a favorable outcome. After Ivey signed House Bill 1 and Senate Bill 1, which authorizes Ivey to call a special election in congressional and state senate districts if the redistricting legislation passes, the state has immediately petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to step in. In emergency filings, Alabama officials are requesting a stay that would allow the state to use its 2023 congressional map for upcoming elections. Right now, a court-ordered map remains in place after a federal panel ruled the state’s plan likely violated... newschannel9.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378403/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2026 00:00:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4378408/posts California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday accused MAGA Republicans of rigging an election after Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled against state Democrats’ new congressional map. Newsom noted on the social platform X that Republicans in Tennessee and Missouri, respectively, could each pick up an additional congressional seat through redistricting, along with two more in North Carolina, four more in Florida and five more in Texas. “Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out,” he wrote. “MAGA has rigged the system.” Newsom, a potential Democratic presidential contender in 2028, has pushed back on President Trump’s request to red states last year to redraw their... The Hill https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4378408/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2026 00:13:23 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378407/posts So a “racist gerrymander” designed to “silence Black voters” is, in practice, on the verge of replacing an aging white Democrat with a Black female conservative who grew up in Memphis, pulled herself out of homelessness, and openly credits her Christian faith as the foundation of her politics. If that is what white supremacy looks like in 2026, the white supremacists need a new playbook. The “Black-Majority” District That Keeps Electing a White Democrat Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District has been drawn as a Black-majority district since the early 1980s. It is the only majority-minority district in the state. And since... Patriot TV https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378407/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2026 00:10:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378283/posts President Trump's declaration that hostilities with Iran are "terminated" has thrown Democrats' strategy around congressional war powers into turmoil, Axios has learned. Why it matters: House Democrats, led by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, had been planning to force a war powers vote every day. It is now unclear whether that will — or even can — happen. Lawmakers involved in the war powers effort have been quietly reassessing how to approach the matter when Congress returns next week, according to multiple aides and lawmakers familiar with the matter. "There's a lot to happen between now and next week," one senior... axios.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4378283/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 12:21:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378316/posts The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections. The court ruled that the state’s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize the mid-decade redistricting. This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void,” the court said in its opinion. Democrats had hoped to win as many as four additional U.S. House seats under Virginia’s redrawn U.S.... The Associated Press https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378316/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 14:28:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4378324/posts A Democrat scheme to take over Virginia's congressional seats, setting up Democrat majorities in 10 out of the state's 11 districts, has failed. The ruling comes from the state Supreme Court which invalidated a voter-approved redistricting plan because lawmakers failed to follow the constitutional process that is required to put the measure on a ballot. Democrats, under the leadership of an extreme left Gov. Abigail Spanberger, had rushed through a vote on their plan to put Democrats in the majority in 10 of the state's 11 districts. The division right now is 6-5 with the Democrats in the majority. World Net Daily https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4378324/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 15:27:29 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4378342/posts Video Summary: "Virginia Supreme Court DELIVERS DEVASTATING BLOW Main Topic The video discusses a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that struck down newly Key Details from the Ruling The court invalidated the redistricting process because it violated the Virginia Constitution (specifically Article 7, Section 1). As a result, the old 2021 court-drawn maps (roughly 6 Democratic seats to 5 Republican seats) will be used for upcoming elections instead of the new Democrat-favorable maps. The new maps would have shifted the balance dramatically to approximately 10 Democratic seats to 1 Republican seat by consolidating rural conservative areas. Host's Perspective (Black Conservative Perspective)... YouTube https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4378342/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 17:21:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378345/posts As one might imagine, the reactions to Friday's Virginia Supreme Court ruling are fast and flowing, with the state's Republicans doing a victory dance while the state's Democrats - and high-ranking Dems in Congress - cope and seethe. Not surprisingly, Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) isn't talking much about "maximum warfare" at the moment, but he does seem to think Democrats may have another option or two on the table. RedState.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378345/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 17:37:11 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378353/posts The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down the state’s recently passed redistricting referendum, dealing a massive blow to Democrats who hoped to gain several seats from new House maps. The redistricting ballot measure passed by three percentage points in late April in what was seen at the time as a major win for Democrats, who stood to gain as many as four seats from redrawn maps ahead of the November midterms. The Virginia Supreme Court decision comes amid an ongoing partisan gerrymandering war and as Republican-led states across the South are working to redraw their House districts after a... CNBC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378353/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2026 18:20:29 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4378186/posts The video celebrates Tennessee Republicans passing a new congressional redistricting map that eliminates the state's only Democrat-held district (in Memphis), turning all congressional seats into safe Republican ones. Key Points: Redistricting action: The Tennessee House passed the map (64-24 vote), splitting the Democrat-controlled Memphis district into two others. The Senate also approved it, and it heads to Governor Bill Lee (expected to sign). This follows similar moves in states like Florida. Context: Benny Johnson argues Tennessee (won overwhelmingly by Trump) had an unconstitutional/"racist" carve-out DEI-style district with no justification. The new map better reflects the state's strong Republican lean (Trump... YouTube https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4378186/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2026 20:49:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378182/posts Move comes days after supreme court ruling weakened Voting Rights Act protections against racial gerrymanderingTennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.The move cracks Tennessee’s ninth congressional district, which covers Memphis, into three pieces, each of which contains almost exactly a third of the city’s Black voters. The new maps mean that all nine of Tennessee’s congressional districts are Republican-leaning.The district had closely occupied the south-west corner of the state. Now three districts snake out... The Guardian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4378182/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2026 20:23:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4377968/posts Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a proposal for a new congressional map that would heavily favor Republicans this November by splitting up the state’s sole Democratic district. The map would put a target on Rep. Steve Cohen, who represents the state’s only majority-Black district and is the lone Democrat among Tennessee’s nine House members. Memphis, which is currently contained in Cohen’s district, would be divided into three parts under the proposal. The proposal comes amid a renewed push from President Trump for GOP state lawmakers to move forward with mid-decade redistricting. Trump and Republicans scored a victory last week when... The Hill https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4377968/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2026 16:55:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4377917/posts On April 29, the Supreme Court decided Louisiana v. Callais. That’s the case where the Court held that the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create a second “majority-minority” Congressional district because “[t]he Constitution almost never permits a State to discriminate on the basis of race, and such discrimination triggers strict scrutiny.”A “majority-minority” district is one that has been gerrymandered to include sufficient numbers of the designated minority group as to make it nearly certain that a member of that group will be elected to represent the district. The case arose out of the redistricting process following the... Manhattan Contrarian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4377917/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2026 11:48:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377907/posts President Trump proved to be a kingmaker in the Indiana and Ohio Republican primaries Tuesday night, where his seal of approval propelled several GOP candidates to landslide victories. In Indiana, Trump’s revenge campaign against incumbent state senators who torpedoed his push last year to redraw the Hoosier state’s congressional boundaries was largely successful – with the president’s preferred candidates winning five of six contests. A potential sixth victory for a Trump-endorsed candidate was still too close to call late Tuesday. “Everyone in Indiana politics should have learned an important lesson today: President Trump is the single most popular Republican among... New York Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377907/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2026 09:47:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377693/posts The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request to immediately finalize its opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, in which it struck down that state’s congressional map, to allow Louisiana to draw a new map in time for the 2026 elections. That map is expected to favor Republicans, who currently hold four of the state’s six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives but could pick up one or even two more under a revised map. The court’s decision drew sharp criticism from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the lone dissenter. Jackson argued that the court’s ruling “has spawned chaos in... SCOTUS Blog https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377693/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2026 02:03:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377707/posts Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolás Maduro, never enjoyed the charisma or genuine popularity of his predecessor, ‘El Comandante’ Hugo Chávez. So all the murals, billboards and installations dotted around Caracas urging the release of the 63-year-old statesman – along with his wife Cilia Flores – from American captivity, don’t exactly feel like a grassroots effort. ‘Bring them home!’ reads one mural, evoking the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas. Meanwhile, a stopwatch installed in Caracas’s Bolivar Square counts how long it has been since the presidential couple were abducted by the US army in early January. Maduro currently resides in the Metropolitan... The Spectator https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377707/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2026 03:21:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4377718/posts 🚨 JUST IN: The red southern state of SOUTH CAROLINA just came out in support of President Trump's push to redistrict before the 2026 midtermsLFG! Time for South Carolina to ELIMINATE Clyburn (D)'s District 6, which is a racial gerrymanderThe Attorney General of SC says the General Assembly "has the LEGAL AUTHORITY" to now redrawMake it happen! 🇺🇸 https://x.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4377718/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2026 05:28:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377555/posts Six supreme court justices handed down a ruling built, ostensibly, on the belief that the US has changed so much as to render the protections of the Voting Rights Act unnecessary. No one should be that gullible.In 1901, the same year my great-grandfather was born, George H White rose to address the 56th United States Congress for the last time. He was a Republican congressman from North Carolina – the only Black member of the entire body. He was leaving because the state he represented had passed legislation making his re-election impossible. Reconstruction had already been undone. The powers that... The Guardian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377555/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2026 04:48:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4377514/posts Trump appeared to hint at a potential military operation in Cuba after US forces “finish the job” in Iran. The comments come as Washington announced a set of new sanctions targeting the island nation on Friday, which Havana slammed as a form of collective punishment. US President Donald Trump joked on Friday that his country’s Navy would take on Cuba on the way home from Iran. His comments came as he addressed attendees of an event at the non-profit Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, where he was invited as a keynote speaker. Euronews https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4377514/posts#comment Sun, 3 May 2026 19:21:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377393/posts "He comes from a place called Cuba, which we will be taking over almost immediately. Now, Cuba's got problems. We'll finish one first. I like to finish a job. On the way back from Iran, we'll have one of our big, maybe the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the biggest in the word. We'll have that come in, stop about 100 yards offshore, and they'll say, 'Thank you very much. We give up.'" Townhall https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377393/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 18:16:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377403/posts Louisiana Rep. Troy Carter calls Supreme Court map decision a "gut punch" to democracy 06:41The Republican governors of Tennessee and Alabama called state lawmakers into special sessions on Friday, initial steps in what could be a scramble across multiple southern states to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court narrowed the Voting Rights Act.Depending on how state officials proceed and whether courts intervene, legislators may try to split up Tennessee's sole Democratic district and eliminate one of Alabama's two blue seats.Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee convened a special session that will start Tuesday, writing in a statement Friday that lawmakers "owe... Yahoo! News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377403/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 19:12:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377346/posts United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said Thursday that the Justice Department will enforce the Supreme Court's decision on gerrymandering districts in every state that has such a district. The Supreme Court struck down two congressional maps in Louisiana Wednesday, ruling the state was unconstitutionally racially gerrymandering when it added a second majority black district. Louisiana redrew the maps in 2024 after a lower court ruled previous maps likely violated the Voting Rights Act because it did not include the second majority black district. Missouri GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt asked the Justice Department earlier Thursday to... Just the News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4377346/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2026 13:07:19 GMT