US Supreme Court Ruling Puts an End to Democrats Rigging Maps Based on Race

The United States Supreme Court just ruled Wednesday that drawing Congressional districts based on race under the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional, 6-3, the Globe reported.

The Reader’s Digest condensed version: Democrats can no longer rig maps based on race.

“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U. S. C. §10301 et seq., was designed to enforce the Constitution—not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion, joined by Justices Kavanaugh, Thomas, Roberts, Barrett and Gorsuch.

Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson dissented.

Looking for answers as to how this ruling will play out, and how it might impact California’s recent racial redistricting scheme, the Globe talked with Constitutional and Election Law Attorney Mark Meuser, who in January  filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily block California’s redistricting scheme while his state appeal played out.

But first, Meuser posted this to X:

“Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered” is probably the best way to understand today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais.

For years, left-leaning groups have pushed an increasingly aggressive reading of the Voting Rights Act to force red states to draw more majority-minority districts (or in other words, to draw districts which often translate into more Democratic-leaning districts).

The Supreme Court just put a firm limit on that strategy. Basically, left-leaning groups pushed the Voting Rights Act beyond its original limits. Rather than focusing on traditional race-neutral districting criteria, those drawing lines were constantly looking at race to produce maps that predictably advantaged Democratic candidates.

The Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear in the past that states generally cannot allow race to predominate in drawing district lines absent a sufficient legal justification. Today’s decision clarifies that plaintiff groups cannot rely on race-driven alternative maps to force additional majority-minority districts unless §2 of the Voting Rights Act actually requires it. Plaintiff groups must use the same criteria in drawing alternative maps as the states use. That includes satisfying the State’s legitimate districting goals, such as political considerations, without relying on race as the driving factor.

Furthermore, today’s decision made clear that historical discrimination, standing alone, is not enough to justify race-based districting today. Leftist organizations who wish to claim that maps are drawn to fix past racial discrimination must show that this past racism supports a present-day inference of intentional discrimination.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is an enforcement tool under the 15th Amendment to stop intentional discrimination. Today’s decision prevents the Voting Rights Act from being used as a tool to produce predetermined electoral outcomes through race-based line drawing. The Court confirmed that the Constitution guarantees equal opportunity to the ballot box, not equal results from the ballot box.

Bottom line: this decision takes away one of the primary legal tools used to pressure states into creating additional VRA districts and makes it much harder to sustain those claims going forward.

This explains the political ramifications. We will analyze next what it means for California’s latest attempt to screw the few Republicans out of their congressional districts(more on that tomorrow).

If nothing else, the Supreme Court made clear, the Louisiana v. Callais decision on racial gerrymandering, which has been used to create majority black congressional districts for decades, is unconstitutional. And it is racist.

Racial discrimination is unconstitutional regardless of the merits used to justify it.

The decision demonstrates just how much Democrat Party power in America is artificial and fraudulent. Remember Hugh Hewitt’s book, “If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat.” Well, they found many ways to cheat, and now they are getting caught.

In 2020, Democrats counted illegal immigrants in the census to bolster Democrat congressional districts.

They throw out election rules like Voter ID, laughably claiming that women aren’t capable of getting new ID with their married name on it. Democrats still claim that blacks just can’t seem to figure out how to get ID at all.

And they racially redistrict.

They have nothing left to offer the people, and certainly don’t explain whatever their positions are, so they rig redistricting wherever they can.

Attorney Theo Wold posted to X:

“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.”

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…

— Theo Wold (@RealTheoWold) April 29, 2026

As I recently said in a speech, we are watching the Democrat Party commit suicide.

This guy gets it – maybe send him a contribution:

“I’m a black Republican who currently represents a majority-white district in the Ohio State House and is running to represent a majority-white district in Congress. The idea that black Americans need special districts carved out just for them is complete nonsense. It’s a violation of the law and blatantly unconstitutional. Glad the Supreme Court made the right decision.”

I'm a black Republican who currently represents a majority-white district in the Ohio State House and is running to represent a majority-white district in Congress.

The idea that black Americans need special districts carved out just for them is complete nonsense. It's a… https://t.co/BQXXnzYXCo

— Rep. Josh Williams (@JoshWilliamsOH) April 29, 2026