The Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated ruling in the Louisiana v. Callais case on Wednesday, striking down the state’s congressional map on grounds that its second majority-black district ran afoul of the Equal Protection Clause.
“The court held that the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to draw a second majority-minority district. Without that requirement, the state had no compelling reason to use race in drawing its lines,” RedState’s Joe Cunningham reported.
The hysterical and fanatical Democrat reactions were pretty predictable as the panic began to set in. I mean, almost immediately, you had some congressional Dems and leftist commentators screaming for Democrats to find ways around the ruling in extreme ways.
Like this one:
In wake of SCOTUS ruling on racial gerrymandering, Dem Rep. Terri Sewell says she’d like to see Republican seats wiped out in CA and IL:
“I’d take 52 seats from California and 17 seats from Illinois.” pic.twitter.com/QxkdLxmAUt
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 29, 2026
IOW, she wants every congressional seat in those states to belong to Democrats.
There was also this:
We are reaching previously unprecedented levels of Democratic cope. https://t.co/AnGRI8w43z
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) April 29, 2026
But one reaction in particular that I wanted to focus on was the one from former President Barack Obama (D), whose post-ruling hot take got deservedly mocked for reasons we’ll get to in a moment.
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Obama vigorously championed Virginia Democrats’ gerrymandering their state from a 6-5 Democrat-Republican split to what could be a 10-1 Democrat advantage in Congress, pending how the Virginia Supreme Court rules on the gerrymander amendment that voters recently (but narrowly) approved.
But in response to the SCOTUS ruling, he made the following statement on X:
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities – so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
He concluded by writing that:
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers – not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
You just… cannot make it up. Talk about disgracing yourself. I mean, he is aware that, for starters, the Virginia gerrymander took away two VRA districts, right?
Mind you, Obama was advocating for voters in Virginia to do this exact thing last week when they erased two VRA districts in favor of political gerrymanders. https://t.co/09rgjkHGO4
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 30, 2026
That, in effect, means that the map “diluted black votes across several districts to elect more white Democrats,” as former NRSC senior advisor Matt Whitlock observed:
If you were ever tempted to take Barack Obama’s racial fear-mongering as anything other than manipulation and opportunism, consider this…
The Virginia map that Barack Obama was the literal face of diluted black votes across several districts to elect more white Democrats. https://t.co/ECccFvQ814
— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) April 30, 2026
Plus, there was also this bit of history on how Obama engaged in a bit of rich white folk racial gerrymandering to propel himself onto the national stage:
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 29, 2026
When I say you literally should not take any pro-gerrymandering Democrat’s argument on this issue seriously, I mean it. There has historically been zero consistency in the claims they’ve made on the topic, which is why when I see states like Texas and my own (North Carolina) make the moves they have in recent months, I applaud them.
President Trump didn’t start the gerrymandering wars. Democrats did. They’ve been doing it for decades, mostly with impunity. The real reason Democrats like Barack Obama are ticked off about the red state revolt on maps ahead of the 2026 midterms is that Republicans are finally embarking on some much-deserved payback, the type of delicious payback we saw here in NC in recent years after nearly a century of Democrat reign.
I say “hell to the yeah” on it. More, please.
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