#Trump is the most unpopular and incompetent president in US history, but he can still win midterm elections through the Republican’s oldest trick - #gerrymandering.

Put creative borders around your voting districts so that all ethnic minorities are squeezed into only one district, and you can do anything you want.

Of course, the Supreme Court is supposed to block this. But what do you do when the Supreme Court is staffed with the judges that you appointed yourself?

#USPol
RE: flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/pol…

Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, blocking a lower court ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people.

^{Associated Press - By MARK SHERMAN}

#SCOTUS dealt with the case in an unsigned order [cowards] over the dissent of the 3 liberal justices.

The order on the court’s #EmergencyDocket is the latest instance of the justices dipping into the nationwide flurry of mid-decade #redistricting instigated by #Trump’s desire for the #GOP to retain control [steal #elections] of the #House in this November’s midterms.

#law #redistricting #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow

Unreal

#SCOTUS allows #Alabama to use #GOP-friendly map for #midterms, cutting seat held by #Black #Democrat

#law #redistricting #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
cnn.com/2026/06/02/politics/su…

#Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority #Black District

Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval on Friday to a new congressional map that would eliminate 1 of the state’s 2 majority-Black districts, making it the second Southern state to draw & approve carving out such a district since #SCOTUS weakened the #VotingRightsAct​ last month.

#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #BigLie #ActivistCourt #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #redistricting #gerrymandering
nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/poli…

As expected, #Alabama asks #SCOTUS to allow use of congressional map helping GOP, despite Federal Appeals Court unanimously ruling it is racially biased

#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #RepresentationMatters #redistricting #gerrymandering #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
apnews.com/article/supreme-cou…

The ruling further confuses the electoral landscape across the #South, as #Republican-led legislatures have raced to implement new district lines after #SCOTUS narrowed the #VotingRightsAct of 1965. It also demonstrates how the ruling from the nation’s highest court has further muddled how lower courts interpret the landmark #CivilRights #law.

#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump

Court Rejects #Alabama #House Map, Calling It Unfair to #Black Voters

The Alabama #Republican led legislature, Governor & AG are likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost #Democrats a majority-Black district.

#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #SCOTUS #Trump
nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/poli…

Great news! #SouthCarolina Senate rejects #Trump call to redraw congressional maps

As early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina’s primaries, the state Senate rejected a #Republican plan to #cancel those congressional votes & instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the #GOP oust the powerful #Democrat #JamesClyburn.

#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
apnews.com/article/redistricti…

As a white Southerner in the United States, I am deeply appalled. Words absolutely fail to describe how this gerrymandering could downspiral from the loss of political representation for Black Americans to loss of professional opportunities and individual personal freedoms. And don't get me started about educational equality. This is an outrage, and an assault against the memory of the Black slaves whose labor literally built the Southlands from the ground up. It's a misery and a heartbreak for their descendants, many of whom still live in poverty, oppression, and injustice.

motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

#scotus #uspol #jimcrow #gerrymandering #southcarolina
#louisiana #georgia #mississippi
#alabama #northcarolina

Alito said racism was over. Southern states are now rushing to revive Jim Crow.

Republicans are set to dismantle at least five majority-Black districts in the South.

^{Mother Jones}

@volkris
Right now, #Felon47's #cult is losing races everywhere, which is why this sudden spate of mid-decade redistricting.

It was that very #gerrymandering that brought this to #MafiaDon's hand-picked #SCotUS leading them to decimate the #VotingRightsAct.

So I challenge the idea any of this was achieved "fairly".

Southern strategy:
bergetoons.blogspot.com/2026/0…

#Louisiana #Texas #Tennessee #Alabama #gerrymandering #Republicans #editorialcartoon #Virginia #supremecourt #race #scotus

Toon: The 60% Solution

At the risk of giving GQP politicians ideas... On April 29, well ahead of its usual timetable of issuing rulings in June, the U.S. Supreme C...

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