Louisiana GOP Wants to Destroy Black Political Power

Louisiana's congressional primaries were postponed after a Supreme Court ruling invalidated a second majority-Black congressional district. Governor Jeff Landry issued an executive order to postpone the US House primary, causing significant voter confusion and uncertainty about which map will be used for future elections.

Louisiana's congressional primaries have been postponed from their originally scheduled date in May due to a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a majority black congressional district. Early voting was already supposed to begin on Saturday for those primaries set for May 16th. However, Republican Governor Jeff Landry issued an executive order to postpone the US House primary following Wednesday's court ruling.

The Supreme Court's 'Cala' decision is described as 'eviscerating' Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This ruling implies that remedies for race are no longer necessary, effectively undermining protections for Black and minority voters to elect candidates of their choice at every level of government. This move is framed as a 'colorblind' interpretation of the Constitution, ignoring historical and ongoing racial discrimination.

And so here we sit in this moment um with the Cala decision which to be clear eviscerates section two of the Voting Rights Act... What it means is that black voters and and all minorities, which include women of every race and ethnicity as well, um have lost, you know, like could lose the ability to elect a candidate of choice at every level of government.

Conservative justices argued that the creation of a majority-Black district was a 'partisan gerrymander' (packing Democratic voters) rather than a 'racial gerrymander,' despite the strong correlation between Black voters and Democratic affiliation. This distinction allows the court to pretend race is not a factor, enabling actions that disproportionately harm Black voters under the guise of partisan politics.

Key to the conservative justice's argument was the suggestion that this was just a partisan jerrymander that that because black voters are most likely to vote reliably democratically, right? That it would not be constitutional to say we are specifically drawing these districts to pack all the all of the uh black voters into one district. But you are in fact able to say, well, we're just trying to pack all the Democratic voters, right?

The ruling is a 'break glass moment' that could empower state legislatures across the 'old Confederacy' (including Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, etc.) to redraw maps, eliminate majority-Black districts, and reduce Black representation at all levels of government, from Congress to local school boards. This is seen as an attempt to eradicate Black political power for the next century, similar to the post-Reconstruction era.

This is going to target and listen to me clearly. This is Indiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, the old Confederacy is back. This is about crushing um black power.