Democrats were terrified this day would come.
When it came, the news was even worse than Democrats feared.
And now the Supreme Court left Democrats in shambles with one ruling that hit them like an avalanche.
As Swamp Digest reports:
Justice Samuel Alito authored the majority opinion in a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that struck Louisiana’s Congressional map, which courts previously ordered to contain one black majority district, as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
The ruling was another blow to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which liberal judges exploited to allow Democrats to steal as many as 20 Congressional seats by forcing red states to create blue districts by drawing majority minority districts.
“Because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race,” Alito wrote in the opinion. “That map is an unconstitutional gerrymander, and its use would violate the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.”
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prevents states from interfering with voting based on race.
Rogue left-wing judges twisted that to mean black Americans were denied the right to vote unless they could elect Democrats to Congress, so courts forced red states to contort their congressional maps to draw majority black districts that otherwise shouldn’t exist.
According to the SCOTUS Blog, Alito wrote that “Section 2 of the VRA guarantees voters, including minority voters, an opportunity to cast a vote for their preferred candidate, but that candidate’s chances of success may be affected by the choices that the state is allowed to make when drawing a redistricting map – such as the desire to protect incumbents or increase the number of seats held by a particular political party. And under the Constitution, Alito continued, a violation of Section 2 only occurs when “the circumstances give rise to a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred” – for example, when there are several possible maps that contain majority-minority districts, but the state “cannot provide a legitimate reason for rejecting all those maps.”
Democrats were furious as this ruling allowed red states to immediately file lawsuits to draw new maps before November that could erase up to 20 illegal Democrat seats and tip the chances of controlling Congress back to the Republicans.
“Voter suppression is a way of life for Donald Trump and far-right extremists on the Supreme Court. Republicans know they cannot win a free and fair election in November, and so they are desperate to rig it,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) ranted in response to the decision.
