redstate.com By Adam Turner
The conservative majority of the Supreme Court looked around, and all they saw were Democrats gerrymandering congressional districts based on race to maximize the number of Democrat-held U.S. House seats. And they wept for our country. So, Justice Sam Alito, my old buddy from my Senate Judiciary Committee days, gave his five comrades advice on how to deal with the whole degraded system:
“I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
Despite Justice Elena Kagan’s whining complaints, which can be seen here, that is exactly what the Court did.
As Redstate has reported:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais, finding that the state’s second majority-Black district violated the Equal Protection Clause. In the 6-3 decision, Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
Soon after, the U.S. Justice Department vowed it would enforce the ruling in every state with racially gerrymandered districts.
This is great news. The Callais decision affects much of the South. The Court greatly restricted racial gerrymandering, such as what occurred in Louisiana, by limiting – but not eliminating – the use of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to require the creation of a majority-minority district. As a respected conservative legal expert has opined:
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