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MIKE DAVIS: Supreme Court gives states a map to constitutional sanity

Early voting had already begun in Louisiana when the justices granted the motion to expedite the judgment

By Mike Davis Fox News

Published May 7, 2026 2:44pm EDT

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Last week, the Supreme Court correctly put an end to DEI districts that had existed thanks to an erroneous interpretation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). On Monday, the justices again acted correctly, immediately issuing the judgment of the court and thus permitting Louisiana to redraw its congressional map that, in its current form, is unconstitutional. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, however, refused to join the issuance of the judgment, instead writing a laughable dissent that attacked her colleagues’ integrity. Justice Jackson is a gift to judicial conservatives, uniting the six Republican-appointed justices more than anyone or anything, and we should hope for many more years of her presence (and presents).

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the Supreme Court fellows program, on Feb. 13, 2025, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

In the 1960s, there was a serious problem in that segregationist states racially redistricted to disenfranchise minority voters. In response, Congress passed the VRA, which it amended and extended in 1982 and 2007. Section 2 of the VRA requires that minority voters be given the opportunity to have the representation of their choice. For decades, in large part thanks to the Supreme Court’s awful decision in........

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