Monday, May 4, 2026

Supreme Court hands Trump a lifeline ahead of the midterms

The battle for the Voting Rights Act may now be over but the battle over redistricting rages on.

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled on Louisiana v. Callais, which not only requires Louisiana to redraw its congressional maps, but essentially killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that prohibited voting practices or procedures that discriminated based on race. This also includes the process of drawing congressional maps.

Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump immediately called on Republican states to take advantage of the ruling. “We should demand that State Legislatures do what the Supreme Court says must be done,” he said. “That is more important than administrative convenience. The byproduct is that the Republicans will receive more than 20 House Seats in the upcoming Midterms!”

And the next step of the redistricting wars was already underway. 

In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis got his desired redraw of is congressional map to create four new Republican-friendly districts hours after the Supreme Court’s decision. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, whom President Donald Trump criticized in the past, announced a new session to redraw its map.

Trump fired the first round when he pushed for Republicans in Texas, North Carolina and Missouri to redraw their congressional maps. So far, only Indiana Republicans resisted the temptation to do.

The goal, of course, is to help Trump avoid the same fate of nearly every president in the last 20 years: losing the House of Representatives. Trump and the GOP clearly see the death of a landmark civil rights law as a chance for him to avoid impeachment and continue his agenda.

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By Eric Garcia

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I don’t know what he’s on.

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), making fun of FBI Director Kash Patel.

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