Today, in a very important 6-3 decision at the Supreme Court [Full pdf Ruling Here] the high court ruled in Louisiana -vs Callais that congressional districts drawn by considering race are an unconstitutional gerrymander. Race should not be a consideration in the drawing of district boundaries.
Chief Justice John Roberts had previously described Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District as a “snake” that stretches more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) to link parts of Shreveport, Alexandria, Lafayette and Baton Rouge. “That map is an unconstitutional gerrymander,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissent for the three leftist, activist justices. “The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave. Today’s decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter,” Kagan wrote, referencing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
(Via Politico) – […] Alito said a revised interpretation of Section 2 was needed in part because of the Supreme Court’s 2019 ruling that the Constitution does not prohibit gerrymandering for partisan purposes. As a result, he suggested, plaintiffs in voting discrimination lawsuits are now often “dressing their political-gerrymandering claims in racial garb.”
“Failing to account for political considerations in redistricting … can allow plaintiffs to undo a State’s legitimate, non-racial decisions under the banner of Section 2,” Alito wrote, appearing to express concern that Democrats could use voting rights lawsuits for partisan purposes rather than to target racial discrimination.
“If race and politics are not disentangled and a Section 2 claim is cynically used as a tool for advancing a partisan end, the VRA’s noble goal will be perverted,” he wrote.
The high court’s decision is the culmination of a long-running battle in Louisiana over Black voters’ representation in Congress. The Supreme Court first heard argument in the case in March 2025, but the justices failed to issue a ruling and made the unusual decision to hear it again this term. (read more)
The leftist/activist justices (Kagan, Sotomayor and the DEI Justice Brown-Jackson), had intentionally been slow-walking their dissent opinion in order to delay the release of the high court ruling released today. The delay tactic was intended to stop ‘Republican’ states from using the majority ruling for redistricting purposes prior to this year’s midterm federal election.
Democrats and Community Activist groups are apoplectic that race is not permitted in the determination of congressional districts. Democrats could stand to lose up to 20 seats in the House of Representatives if race is no longer a factor in making district boundaries. Former President Barack Obama is highly upset at the decision:
President Trump celebrated the elimination of racism in congressional districting.
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Democrats could lose up to 20 seats with this redistricting. And who would they lose them to? Do we really think the GOPe will do anything?
What history do we have that the GOPrick RINOrats do anything constructive when handed to them on a silver platter?
Mcconnell, Thune and others are right now thinking, damn, we have to throw even more seats?
Very possible, look at Indiana, they already balked at their shot to get this done.
That was Pence.
Really? McConnell and Thune are senators. The ruling impacts districting for the House of Representatives.
I of course know that, I was using their names as big names of the cabal.
Then use House big names, if you know that…
It’s the state legislature and the Governor that handles that. Not Congress.
I suppose now Democrats are just going to have to cheat harder to make up for a lack of tilted contests. That and or pay more to the loyal opposition for them to purposely fail in getting elected.
They will just have to dig a little deeper in their big bag of dirty tricks.
You underestimate the 100 million+ voters who currently want to see the Republican party dissolved for good.
Wanting to dissolve and reconstitute the current makeup of the Republican party does not imply they will vote for Democrats.
We keep hearing this and yet Republicans won a clean sweep of control of the Senate, House, and Presidency in November 2024. Clearly there are more voters who don’t want the Democrats in power. Democrats seem to always believe their own leftist media propaganda.
Nattering nabobs of negativism.
And as a result of the ‘clean sweep’ Congress has done what ? Zilch.
Holy Mother of stupid.
You are clueless.
100 million?
Lol
You need to try harder, influencer. There is no pretending here.
See if Paul Ryan starts giving seminars on how to choke during debates.
The RINOrats have squandered so many opportunities. They are experts when it comes to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It almost seems intentional. /sarc
That is also the Toronto Maple Leaf’s motto too!
It’ll make it easier to get things through the House… the Senate Rs are the problem but a bigger majority in the house puts more pressure on them.
State legislatures determine Congressional districts. Florida has already voted to eliminate a gerrymandered black district. A lot of people take their pessimism and negativity too far.
It requires the rank and file citizens to take over local republican parties to get rid of rinos. When you take over the party at the local level you get to pick the candidates and weed out the traitorous rinos.
It’s not up to those two. They are Senators. It is up to their Governors and the Legislature. Nothing will happen in Kentucky because they have a Democrat Governor. In North Dakota, they’re all already republican. I think they’re so small that they only have 1 or2 Representatives.
Maybe I can get my money back on a lifetime of overpaying taxes for other people’s shit. Every vote I have cast in my life was wasted because I happen to live in the most ridiculously gerrymandered state and it’s all based upon race.
Talk about being disenfranchised……..
Sounds like it’s time for a class action?
I think it’s time for a whole lotta CAs. Nearly every big-blue state has ridiculous district boundaries and they are all based upon race. They take all the center-right crackers and divide them up into little tiny crumbs surrounded by the ghettos or barrios. This has been going on for way over a generation.
I would like to see CA’s and not for just the big blue states but the smaller blue states also.
Left out the local gerrymandering. On the street where my children attended Elementary
school , there were 2 polling places to vote. Literally 300 feet apart. The voting district was drawn
so that all the pesky single family homeowners were outvoted by all the apartment renters in the
districts.
Redistribution of our coerced tax payments is theft.
MeToo Felix.
Regardless of the decision…Dems will still do it…they don’t care about the law…
Let’s show them that Lawfare can be played both ways!
Yes, but Red states won’t have to.
These Leftist “judges” are insufferable.
Boasberg has already preemptively ruled that the SCOTUS decision is unconstitutional and null and void.
He needs to mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bwhahaha!!!!
The National Democratic Redisticting Committee is Eric Holder and Barack H. Obama’s little project.
Today, their mouthpiece had a few things to say (to you, RACISTS /sarc).
https://democraticredistricting.com/ndrc-disastrous-scotus-ruling-guts-the-voting-rights-act-to-rubber-stamp-republican-gerrymanders/
Just reading Obama makes me ill.
He’s still a Kenyan.
I think it’s time for the SCOTUS to declare the Democratic Party Unconstitutional.
You just won the whole thread!
While they are at it…………..we only need 3 questions on the any Census.
1) Are you a us citizen?
2 )What is your address?
3) How many US citizens live in this household.
Today, Like Yesterday, I am proud to say I am a native born son of Louisiana. I love my state and I love the people that live here. This ruling has set our state FORWARD by at least 50 years. That’s how I look at it and most of my neighbors feel the same way. The radical progressive leftie pinko commie rat nanny state bastards…they are not having a good day…and that should make us safer and more free in the long run.
this racial crap has gone on for far too long in our voting laws. Merit. Not location…not color of skin. not protective class or not (what the eff is that anyway?). Nope…merit. Can you do the work and are you good at it and have solid ethics and leadership that makes people want to work hard and improve themselves also? merit…it’s contagious. That is how elections and leadership should be won. Period.
Give it 10 years and we will revisit Louisiana, and enjoy the benefits of this ruling. I am smiling now in a time when I have not been very happy for several weeks.
God Bless Louisiana, God Bless the America
also noting: Obama can suck it
Obamadamadingdong has already sucked it. Yes, God Bless Louisiana and God Bless America, from a native born son and former resident.
Merit and only merit should be the mantra; all others create sub optimal results. Regitiger, you nailed it.
Thank you regitiger for your comment. I always look forward to reading your comments. I learn something every time and/or feel hopeful when I read them.
As for “bam bam”, he hates the fact he is no longer in the limelight and has lost his so called “popularity” and President Trump is fixing and trying to fix most of the disastrous 8 years he was installed and the 4 years his vp was installed as President. Jealousy and hate eats at him from the inside for a very long time, and it is showing its ugly head in most everything the so called “lightbringer” spews out, JMHO!
Have a most blessed and wonderful day and again, thank you for your comments.
What’s at stake in Watson v RNC (24-1260): Does federal law require ballots to be received by Election Day, or only cast by Election Day?
Federal law had established a uniform national date for federal elections. Does this say that feds can override state laws that allow grace periods? 5th Circuit says no, reasoning that ballots must be both cast and received by Election Day.
After arguments Justices, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch all sounded ready to rule against Mississippi’s mail-in balloting law, while Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson not. The views of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett are hard to tell. However, the ultimate outcome remains uncertain until the Court issues its opinion, which is expected end of 6/26,
Devastating. We’ve rolled back 100 years of progress in a decade.
I’m convinced we’re in a generation of Americans that are complacent about
Democracy due to growing up in a period of relative stability/peace time.
Many ignorant people, to this day, that choose to bury their head in the sand because they think “the pendulum always swings back”, or “politics doesn’t impact my day to day life”.
As the US descends further into authoritarianism and fascism and Trump/ MAGA continue to whittle away what’s left of our democratic institutions.
They learn nothing from history. We will all suffer for it.
Wow. You’re loony lefty idiotic talking point central. Have you ever had an independent thought?
Just rehash the Covid affair for us and follow with Biden victory and governance. Thanks much.
I don’t subscribe to mob rule, but to republican ideals.
Carry on.
It’s been a bad day for commies like you. You were so looking forward to winning in November, and now that’s all gone. Boo-hoo.
Oh, boo-frickity-hoo. Drama queen much? Perhaps you should move to the U.K. You’d fit right in.
No, we’ve reversed 100 years of degeneration into old world fascism/authoritarianism by “progressives.” The fact that you have a very difficult time facing is that you cannot survive in a system that does not support your parasitic existence and that the Laws of Nature have deemed you a dead end. Your time is soon up.
Whaaaaaat? I looks to me like the playing field has been made slightly more leveled.
Yawn, go left, where you currently belong, judging by your comment. We are a Constitutional Republic, I repeat, A Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy. Ignorance is bliss!
Massive, organized protests in 3,2,1…
Trump graffiti:
https://truthsocial.com/@CitizenFreePress/posts/116490524797208348
Gee Barack – maybe we can all be equal now.
Nj has a really crazy gerrymandered district for Hispanics. It goes from Middlesex County (mid-state) and crawls up the coast to Hudson County (far-north). That is where Menendez was first in congress. Now his son is the congressman from that district. When John Corzine had to pick a congressman to give his Senate seat when he became governor, Menendez got the senate seat because democrats couldn’t lose in that ridiculous district.
Cynthia McKinney’s old district was the model for gerrymandering. Went from South Dekalb all the way to
Savannah, taking hooks into every majority black area the entire distance. Some parts of the district were
wide as the state roads that it followed.
This is a severe blow to the racial spoils system.
If nothing else, the Louisiana v. Callais decision demonstrates just how much Democrat Party power in America has become an artificial construct.
They gain power through counting illegals in the census, diluting election security rules, and forcing Red States to draw congressional districts solely on the basis of race.
They have no ability to argue their positions on the merits, so they’ve built these pillars of power to rig the game.
But now they’re slowly coming to an end.
Next up is Watson v. Republican National Committee, if the Supreme Court rules correctly it will make election day election day not election week or election month. It would require votes to be received by end of election day and basically cut off another avenue that the democrats have used in their mail in voting fraud, the counting of voting after election day until their desired results happen.
A much needed decision for the country. You simply can’t have 13% of the nation act like it is really 90% of the population.
This exactly. The main problem the left has with this is that “these small insular groups won’t have a very big voice in the government!”. Well… DUH! Of course they shouldn’t, they are by definition a smaller group. Ideally, they should ‘assimilate’ into the larger body and everyone adopts, at least, compatible goals.
Tails don’t wag dogs. That’s not being dismissive, that’s an observation of reality.
House districts are intended to give ‘smaller group’ representation vs Senate’s ‘state-wide’, but that only goes so far as total population grows… the pool of people in a district should usually be a mix representing the overall population w/in reason in most cases (exceptions surely exist).
Taken to their desired extremes, the left would have entire districts with one person in them, the House rep.
The ‘smaller groups’ get their representation by being vocal in their district! If their rep agrees with their policy ideas, they get adopted. If these policies are narrowly self-serving? and/or penalize everyone else to the benefit of the small group?… then likely not. That’s how it should be. That’s how the country continues on a path of “serving the public’s basic needs”… which -should- be all that we want our government to do.
People forget that they can vote with their feet as well. If you want to sway a district that is already a battleground, move to it… put your money where your mouth is. I moved out of a district (and city) that didn’t have my best interest in mind (a large blue city) to one that does (nicely red, for now anyway… the leftusts* are coming in more and more).
This issue needs to be navigated carefully though b/c the left will use this to try to argue for the dissolution of the Electoral College. They fail to understand that the Framers set this all up for all the reasons they outlined in contemporary writing. The EC recognizes that at the scale/size of this vast country, there are very different needs in different locales that outstrips the local-focus of congressional districts and even the broader Senate. Multi-state interests (breadbasket vs coasts for example) need to be considered with balanced-weight, lest we turn the breadbasket into a wasteland and have a food crisis among other problems.
It is all an imperfect balancing act, but the imperfections were tuned to be small and reasonably governable. That’s the best we can do, this is an optimization problem with more variables than controls which by definition means there’s no perfect answer.
*lefty-locusts
One might ask how a conservative legislature and governor would gerrymander a snake like this to provide an extra D district. They were forced to by court order. So imo, the R’s fafo’d it so badly to make a certainty that it would be found unconstitutional.
The bad news is that this just postpones the court ordered gerrymander (hopefully til after the midterms if not ’28. Could they fafo it again?😉
For all the whining coming from the Democrats, it is worth remembering that back in the 90s black Democrats and Republicans collaborated to produce gerrymanders that benefited both.
Pass the. Winnamins and Cheetos!!