Democrats were dreading this day.
The end result could cripple the left in the 2026 election.
And the Supreme Court just set Democrats up for this bombshell defeat.
As Swamp Digest reports:
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Louisiana v. Callais.
Justices presided over Louisiana’s challenge to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which mandates DEI districts where states must draw Congressional maps with majority minority districts.
Oral arguments didn’t go well for the left.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lawyer Janai Nelson argued racial gerrymanders were necessary because white democrats were too racist to vote for black candidates, even if they ran as a Democrat.
“It was clear that, regardless of party, white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they were Democrats or not,” Nelson told the justices.
“We know that there is such a significant chasm between how black and white voters vote in Louisiana that there is no question that even if there some correlation between race and party, that race is the driving factor,” Nelson added.
NAACP lawyer argues at SCOTUS that it’s necessary to create race-based congressional districts because “white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they were Democrats or not.” pic.twitter.com/PlTPSYNqye
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 15, 2025
Conservatives on the Supreme Court weren’t buying it.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that racial gerrymanders’ time had come and gone.
“The issue, as you know, is that this court’s cases in a variety of contexts have said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time, sometimes for a long period of time, decades in some cases, but that they should not be indefinite and should have an endpoint,” Kavanaugh stated.. “What exactly do you think the end point should be for the intentional use of race to create districts?”
Justice Samuel Alito mused that racial gerrymanders now serve a political ends, allowing parties to create seats they couldn’t otherwise win.
“If it happens to be that people of one race or another race overwhelmingly prefer one of the political parties, does that transform the situation into racial voting?” Alito wondered. “Or is it still just partisan voting?”
There is no understating the political earthquake that will set off if the Supreme Court ends racial gerrymanders.
The law mandating state legislatures to pack black and Hispanic voters into their own districts had the side effect of forcing red states to create Democrat Congressional seats that wouldn’t otherwise exist under fair maps that didn’t discriminate based on race.
Republicans could gain as many as 19 seats before the 2026 midterms if the Supreme Court guts Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and gives the green light to states to draw new maps.
And that could block Democrats from winning back control of the House of Representatives before one vote is cast.
