5.1.26 -- C&C NEWS
“Race-Based Elections at All Levels May Now Be Illegal”
By Jeff Childers – Practicing attorney, well-known author
Excerpts from this article:
On Wednesday 4.29.26, the Supreme Court didn’t just tweak Louisiana’s map; it quietly detonated the Voting Rights Act’s [VRA] entire race-engineering regime.
This [Supreme Court ruling] could wind up being the most liberating Supreme Court decision in our lifetimes.
…“Judges, school board members, councilmen” -- it will affect them all.”
…What the Court did in Louisiana v. Callais was not just about one badly drawn Louisiana map, or even about potential GOP pickups in the 2026 midterms.
FOUR HUGE SHOCKWAVES OF THIS SUPREME COURT DECISION
In plain English, the ruling is already triggering at least four massive downstream shocks— three of which nobody has bothered pointing out:
1. A red-state rush to redraw maps before the midterms, now unshackled from court-mandated “majority-minority” districts and old Section 2 racial targets.
2. A blue-state brick wall, which ambitious Democratic gerrymanders and constitutional amendments are suddenly slamming into because their legal doorway just evaporated into thin air.
3. A federal lawfare with Trump’s DOJ [Department of Justice] already promising to apply its civil-rights powers to attack the race-based maps it used to defend, and to enforce Callais, in “every state that has such a district.”
4. An earthquake rumbling under local government, where decades-old Section 2–era “remedies” — single-member districts, special minority seats, and other race-based structures in CITIES, COUNTIES, and SCHOOL BOARDS — are now open to attack as potentially unconstitutional racial engineering.
Only the first shockwave was widely predicted.
The other three [also listed above], especially the LOCAL effects, are what make this political earthquake a magnitude-8 event with aftershocks for two generations.
AFTERSHOCKS AT ALL LEVELS BY THIS SCOTUS DECISION
…As we expected, more red states jumped into the redistricting pool yesterday [after Supreme Court decision], eager to enjoy their new map-drawing freedom, unshackled from racist requirements for court-mandated majority-minority districts.
For instance, AL.com reported, “Alabama wants to redraw its Congressional maps, asks Supreme Court for quick review.”
…Even in Georgia, where early primary voting has already begun, legislators have started brainstorming how to implement the new Supreme Court rules. Fox 5 Atlanta, yesterday:
Nearly everyone predicted the rush of red states to speed-run map changes before midterms.
However, an even bigger implication surfaced yesterday [after the Supreme Court ruling].
…Political strategist Caroline Welles said, “Voting rights litigation has been the main tool since 2013. If it gets blunted, Democrats are looking at structural disadvantages that feel insurmountable.”
Widener law professor Michael R. Dimino noted:
“The decision is very significant for the future -- it will remove an unfair advantage for Democrats.”
In other words, while everyone saw the red-state [largely Republican] rush to redraw districts, nobody outside political skunkworks operations predicted the effects in blue states [largely Democrat].
Illinois, for example, was literally moments away from approving an amendment to its state constitution…that would allow Democrats to gerrymander a favorable new map [i.e., drawing voting district lines in a way that helps Democrats win more seats than they normally would], but the SCOTUS decision erected a brick wall. Chicago Tribune, yesterday:
…Democrats are picking themselves up and beginning to grapple with the terrifying scope of Wednesday’s decision.
ANOTHER SHOCKWAVE
The third huge shock appeared, of course, in a tweet on X.
John Solomon’s Just the News reported:
Every. Single. State. [Not just red states]
It began with a letter from Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) to the DOJ…it has federal authority to enforce the new rules on all fifty states.
…Harmeet Dhillon promptly replied, “We are ON IT!”
[Harmeet Dillon is the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Department of Justice.]
The implications are nothing less than astonishing.
In practical terms, the DOJ can (and likely will) systematically review existing maps across BLUE states to identify districts where race was an explicit or predominant factor in line-drawing, especially where the old Voting Rights Act [VRA] framework was used as an excuse to draw pretzel-like majority-minority districts.
…For decades, conservatives have watched the DOJ deploy its full legal firepower against Republican-drawn maps with grim, unstoppable efficiency…
Now, a senator sends a letter, and the Assistant Attorney General of the United States responds on social media … “We are ON IT!”
…By the most recent count, there are about 45 redistricting disputes — “a sprawling web of litigation”— still pending in more than 30 states in various federal and state courts.
Harmeet’s announcement suggests the DOJ plans to dive into ATTACKING the “race-aware maps” — rather than DEFENDING them as the DOJ has always done before.
So it’s NOT just that Louisiana v. Callais is spurring red-state redistricting, closing off some blue-state initiatives, and ending decades of ugly lawfare against Republican states.
…Suddenly —and unexpectedly— Democrats now find themselves sitting in the crosshairs, the defendants in what could be decades of civil rights litigation.
It’s coming fast and hard.
MOST SIGNIFICANT SHOCKWAVE OF ALL
Fourth —and possibly most significant of all— even though Louisiana v. Callais explicitly applies to congressional districts and the VRA’s Section 2, its logic could ripple throughout all other state and local offices, too.
Section 2 DOES NOT APPLY ONLY TO CONGRESS.
…Local governments of the United States; all are now in play
…If a legislature or city council carved out a special “minority opportunity” seat on a board of elections, a school board, a county clerk’s office, et cetera, and the design was openly about racial representation, as many of them EXPLICITLY WERE… all those just became lucrative targets for legal challenges [because of this Supreme Court ruling].
The VRA [now illegal because of the Supreme Court decision] didn’t just infect the superstructure [of the Democrats]; it created careers, installed institutions, and built brands [for the Democrat political machine].
Entire organizations, podcast networks, civil rights “expert” classes, and academic political identities were colonized [i.e., taken control of] by the idea that the Section 2 regime [in the VRA] was both necessary, virtuous, and superior to their MAGA neighbors.
For the first time since the 1970s, …We can now start ripping them up by their evil roots.
…A new golden age of colorblindness has begun…
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