In states across the old Confederacy and beyond, Republican lawmakers are scrambling to carve up districts once drawn to give Black voters a chance to choose their representatives in government. While districts at the local, state and federal level are all at risk, the most urgent objective, for these lawmakers, is helping Republicans hold Congress in the 2026 midterms.
A Supreme Court decision last week annihilating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Era — opened the floodgates for this last-minute, map-drawing scramble. One state, Louisiana, has gone so far as to suspend an election already in progress.
Chief Justice John Roberts, meanwhile, is on the defensive following criticism of the Court’s decision.
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I hope when the Democrats win in November they enact an new Civil Rights bill for the entire nation.
The presence of a single non-white person (excepting the handful of self-hating tokens) in the halls of Congress is an existential crisis for these bigoted scumbags. Next up: the authors of the 19th amendment clearly intended it to bar women from voting for or holding public office.
An Appeal to Heaven, perhaps.
How are all these States going to pay for these additional elections and redistricting efforts?
Raise taxes?
Cut funding for Public Schools?
Never mind…
Well, they’ll have to be creative, and perhaps look to the past.
Perhaps a small fee to fund the God-given right to cast a vote? As a measure of freedom, of course. What righteous American could be against that?