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Mehek Cooke: Supreme Court Redistricting Rulings End Race-Based Politics

The Daily Signal’s Senior National Security and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke disagreed with claims that Republican-led redistricting efforts could backfire politically, arguing on NewsNation that recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional maps in Alabama and Louisiana mark a long-overdue shift away from race-based political assumptions about voters.

Appearing on the network to discuss congressional map redraws and their implications for the 2026 midterms, Cooke dismissed warnings from Politico columnist Jonathan Martin that Republicans risk energizing Democrats and alienating new voters by aggressively pursuing additional House seats.

“We’re talking about voters,” Cooke said, arguing that Democrats have long treated Black Americans as a political monolith by drawing race-specific districts.

Cooke specifically addressed criticism of the Supreme Court’s Monday decision in Allen v. Caster, which vacated a lower court’s ruling blocking Alabama’s 2023 congressional map and reopened the door........

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