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Left keeps crying Jim Crow because Supreme Court rejected racial district games

Rooftop Revelations: Louisiana v Callais limits race-based redistricting and that's a step toward fuller equality under the law

By Corey Brooks Fox News

Published May 26, 2026 5:45pm EDT

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Democrats decry Supreme Court ruling that rolls back key provision of voting rights act

Fox News chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream reports on the Supreme Court decision that limits the use of race in congressional redistricting on ‘Special Report.’

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The Supreme Court’s recent Voting Rights Act decision did not take away the right to vote from a single Black citizen. What it did was begin to roll back a system that allowed politicians and activists to carve Black voters into bizarre racial districts and call it justice.

For years, I have watched congressional maps become more and more absurd. They twisted down highways, jumped across rivers, and reached through paper-thin corridors just to reach yet another cluster of Black voters. These politicians were not drawing neighborhoods connected by proximity, common issues or shared interests — they were drawing by race. They would take a Black neighborhood here and then, miles away, figure out how to connect it to another Black neighborhood with a narrow strip of land so they could hit the right percentage.

That always bothered me. The same people who claim to speak for equality were perfectly willing to reduce Black citizens to pieces on a map. They did not see families, churches, schools or local communities. They saw census blocks and skin color. They called that representation. I always saw something more twisted in it. It said that Black people........

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