Men's Lifestyle May 26, 2026 0 Comments

Why the Supreme Court’s Love for Gerrymandering Could Backfire in Ways No One Expected—Prepare to Be Shocked!

You’d think a carefully crafted conservative Supreme Court majority would have everyone lining up to cheer John Roberts’s so-called Day of Jubilee—sort of like a perfect workout plan everyone wants to follow. But nope, not this time. Since the Louisiana v. Callais decision turned gerrymandering into a political game of Twister, the wheels have come flying off—right in the heart of the old Confederacy. Take Alabama, where one of those shiny GOP-backed redistricting maps got shredded by a federal court faster than you can say “race-based discrimination.” Judges didn’t just blow a whistle—they pulled the whole play apart, insisting that Alabama stick with a court-selected map sporting two majority-Black districts in the latest elections. Now, before you think this is just another legal snoozefest, consider this: How can political strategists keep twisting boundaries and lines without hitting the constitutional wall? And why does the South Carolina Senate’s refusal to postpone a primary smack of both common sense and stubborn defiance? It’s like a high-stakes fitness challenge where everyone’s moving in different directions—and the only thing getting shredded is the democratic process itself. Ready to dive deeper into this tangled political turf war? LEARN MORE

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Try as they might, the members of the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court can’t get everyone on the bandwagon to celebrate John Roberts’s Day of Jubilee. It’s been picking up riders since the court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais made gerrymandering great again, but on Tuesday the bandwagon blew a tire in the least likely place—the states of the old Confederacy. In Alabama, one of those Colorforms redistricting maps got itself blown up in federal court. From CBS News:

The panel of three judges instead ordered Alabama to continue using a court-selected map that includes two majority-Black districts. Those congressional district lines were used in the 2024 elections. In their decision, the judges found that the redistricting plan adopted by Alabama’s GOP-led legislature in 2023, which state officials sought to reimplement for this year’s House contests, intentionally discriminated on the basis of race, in violation of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

“Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination,” Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus and District Judges Anna Manasco and Terry Moorer found. … The court rejected the state’s argument that mapmakers were driven by party politics when they redrew the House district lines in 2023 and instead found that state lawmakers enacted that map to “distribute Black voters across districts to dilute their votes, at least in part because they were Black.”

This will undoubtedly end up in front of the Supreme Court, alas. And over in the home office of American sedition, the state senate refused to celebrate the Day of Jubilee entirely. From PBS:

As early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina’s primaries, the state Senate rejected a Republican plan to cancel those congressional votes and instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the GOP oust a longtime Democrat. Some senators said it was simply too late to make a change. “South Carolina citizens are going to the polls today. And neither my conscience or common sense is going to let me stop an election that is already underway,” Republican state Sen. Richard Cash said.

Oh, Senator Cash, the shrimp line at Mar-a-Lago is closed to you now.

One of the goals of the administration in trying to push South Carolina into a new primary was a desire to eliminate the congressional district represented by Representative James Clyburn, the veteran Black legislator widely credited with turning around Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy in 2020. This seems to have given the state senate the shivers, as did the logistical nightmare of cobbling together primaries on the fly.

Debate has stalled in the Senate, where Democrats are staunchly opposed and some GOP lawmakers have concerns that an aggressive redistricting could backfire by making some Republican-held seats susceptible to losses because of the addition of Democratic voters. Clyburn noted that when state lawmakers last redrew congressional districts, after the 2020 census, they spent months holding meetings across the state to gather public suggestions. Although that map resulted in a 6–1 seat advantage for Republicans over Democrats, the process was orderly and fair, he said.

“When the map was challenged, the U.S. Supreme Court said, yes, this is constitutional,” Clyburn said. But now, “this White House says, to hell with the process, to hell with the Constitution, just do what we want done.”

Jim Clyburn may be the last rational person in the well-cultivated political chaos brought on from the top of the government.