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The Supreme Court, described as 'hardcore right-wing conservative,' allowed Louisiana to expedite the redrawing of congressional maps, effectively diminishing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This decision was made by waiving the typical 32-day waiting period, a move Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted has almost no precedent. The court's action is framed as a 'purely racist decision' aimed at eradicating the Congressional Black Caucus, as it specifically targets Black-majority districts while leaving white Democratic districts untouched.

The court allowed a recent ruling last week that weakened a crucial part of the Voting Rights Act to take effect sooner than usual. This procedural decision comes shortly after the court ruled that it invalidated Louisiana's congressional map and diminish section two of the Voting Rights Act. Typically, the court waits 32 days before officially issuing its judgment to the lower court. Nope. They said we're not even going to wait a week. Last week, Louisiana's requested that the court expedite the prot process, emphasizing the urgent need to redraw its congressional maps. On Monday, the Supreme Court granted the request. In fact, uh, Supreme Court Justice Elite Samuel Leo decided to take pot shots at Supreme Court Justice Kati Brown Jackson. Yeah. The black voters in the Klay case have filed a motion asking the Supreme Court to recall the judgment stating that they intend to file for a motion for reconsideration.

The Purcell Principle dictates that election rules should not be changed too close to an election. The Supreme Court previously invoked this principle in Alabama (Allen v. Milligan, 2022) to force an election under unconstitutionally racist maps, claiming February was too close to November. However, in the Louisiana case, the court ignored this principle in May 2026, ahead of the November 2026 midterms, to allow map changes that suppress Black votes, demonstrating a clear double standard.

And Alabama had these racist maps. These racist maps were so racist that even the racists on the Supreme Court were just like, 'Oh, that's that's a bit too far.' But they decided the case in February of 2022. And at that point, these conservatives, including Brett Kavanaaugh, said that February 2022 was too close to the November 2022 midterms. and they invoked the Purcell principle. So they forced Alabama to have an election under unconstitutionally racist maps because they only ruled the maps racist in February and the election was in November. So that's the PCEL principle when it comes to restoring black voting rights. But when it comes to taking black voting right whites away, apparently it doesn't matter. apparently May May in 2026 ahead of the November 26 2026 midterm elections that's that's not close enough to the election to invoke this principle.

Republican efforts to redraw maps and suppress votes are described as a 'GOP war on Black America,' not merely partisan politics. This includes attempts to eliminate Black congressional districts in Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida. The goal is to reduce Black political power, as evidenced by the targeting of Black-majority districts while leaving white Democratic districts largely untouched.

This is a purely racist decision because what you see happening in Louisiana and Tennessee, which we're going to talk about later in the show, in all of these southern states, Roland, they are trying to eliminate the Congressional Black Caucus. They are trying to eradicate the Congressional Black Caucus. There are 67 members of the Congressional 67 black people serving in Congress. Most of them represent districts in the south and those are the districts they're trying to take away to the point that when we talk about these gerrymandering maps, these new maps, Roland, they are leaving white Democratic districts alone, they are not splitting up cuz you know we all think that like the only Democrats in the South are black and they ain't. There are some whites of good conscience in the South who vote for the Democratic party. Their neighborhoods are untouched. They're not cracking and packing the white Democratic neighborhoods in Louisiana, in Texas, in Tennessee. They're only going after the black ones.

With legal and legislative avenues for protecting voting rights increasingly closed, massive voter turnout by Black people, Latinos, and 'whites of good conscience' is presented as the sole effective strategy. The argument is that overwhelming turnout can 'blow up' the calculations of gerrymandered maps, which rely on historical voter turnout patterns.

If black people, Latino people, and whites of good conscience overwhelmingly turn out, like Obama 2008 numbers turn out, all of these maps fail them. All of these maps fail them because what they're to make the maps because you can't completely erase the people to make a majority minority district safe for a white Republican. What you have to do is not only is is get, you know, just 50% plus one into that majority minority district, you also have to weaken previously strong Republican districts to make the numbers work, right? And if you overwhelmingly turn out, you blow up all of their calculations. It is the only way at this point.

The host expresses frustration with Black leadership and organizations for being complacent in 2025, failing to prepare for anticipated attacks on voting rights and Project 2025. This 'sitting on their asses' approach is blamed for the current need to 'play catchup' and for not adequately informing and mobilizing voters year-round.

I disagree. Uh I think people were complacent. Uh I think too many people uh after the 2024 election, I kept hearing, 'Oh my goodness, I'm tired. We've done so much.' And I was like, 'Bullshit. I'm sorry.' I'm like, 'This is what's what's the happening.' He got inaugurated that they were executing project 2025. We were seeing massive cuts left and right. We knew the Louisiana vers decision was coming down. And I was sitting here saying, 'Y'all, y'all better get ready for the fight ahead.' And I think that was a problem. I think too many of us, we too many people took all of 2025 off and now they're waking up going, 'Oh my god, what's happening?'