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5th Circuit UNANIMOUSLY VACATES Race-Based Redistricting Order – Mississippi NO LONGER Forced to Draw Woke Majority-Black Supreme Court Districts

The redistricting wars are escalating across America, and conservatives just scored another major courtroom victory.

The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has unanimously removed a lower court block that forced Mississippi to redraw judicial district maps based on race, a decision that could now open the door for Republicans to revisit the state’s congressional map, including the heavily Democrat-leaning district represented by the sham January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson.

The judges vacated U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock’s 2025 liability order that demanded the state redraw its 1987-era Supreme Court districts to create greater “Black voting strength” under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The decision, handed down just yesterday, sends the case back to the district court in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which made it crystal clear: racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional and race cannot be the predominant factor in drawing electoral maps without ironclad justification.

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Governor Tate Reeves (R) shared the Fifth Circuit’s action on Monday, saying, “Post Callais, both the plaintiffs and the State jointly requested this action.”

Reeves called it “a good day for those who believe in the principle that all Americans are created equal. A good day for law and order. A good day for Mississippi!”

The governor said in late April that he would call lawmakers into a special session 21 days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Callais to address state Supreme Court redistricting. That timeline would see lawmakers back in Jackson next week.

Soon after the ruling in Callais, leaders in both the Mississippi House and Senate instructed staff attorneys to prepare analysis on the ruling’s impact on state Supreme Court redistricting in Mississippi ahead of the likely special session.

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves announced he is calling a special legislative session for redistricting once the US Supreme Court rules on voting rights.

Governor Reeves said the legislature will convene 21 days after the Supreme Court issues a ruling.

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Mockery Ensues After Disgraced Virginia Attorney General Makes This EMBARRASSING Mistake While Begging the U.S. Supreme Court to Reinstitute the Democrats’ Rigged Map

The Democrats have not been sending their best people for a long time, but at least they can avoid the errors an elementary school child makes.

Not disgraced Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, however.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned the Democrat Party’s rigged gerrymandering referendum last week in a 4-3 decision, ruling the entire sleazy process to sneak it onto the ballot was unconstitutional from the start.

This was the latest devastating blow to radical Democrats’ blatant attempt to rewrite Virginia’s congressional maps mid-decade and hand themselves a super-majority in the U.S. House by turning the state from a competitive 6-5 split into a laughably unfair 10 Democrats to 1 Republican slaughter.

Virginia voters previously approved the state legislature and Governor Abigail Spanberger’s wicked power grab in a narrow vote last month.

On Monday, Jones filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, begging them to restitute the rigged map. But when he filed the appeal, Jones was confused about which court he should send it to.

The appeal shows that he is addressing the Supreme Court of Virginia, not the U.S. Supreme Court. The Justices should throw this out based on the stupid error alone.

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Democrats Seem to Want a New Civil War

Democrats would have you believe that the Republicans started the first Civil War in order to preserve slavery, which is quite on-brand with their fondness for rewriting history. 

Now they are agitating for a new Civil War, again based on a long series of what amount to racial grievances, although this time the target of their hate is white people. Same basic theme, just a new set of enemies to demonize and wage war against. 

The slander that Republicans are racists has been floating around for a very long time, but over the past few months and years, the frequency and loudness have reached a new level, along with talks of “war,” “revolution,” “maximum warfare,” and outright assassination talk and attempts. 

Democrats are screaming bloody murder, in some cases literally, about the recent Supreme Court decision that mandates that the drawing of Congressional maps must be color blind. It doesn’t even matter if the new Congressmen elected might be black; what matters is that they are Democrats. 

The theory is simple: Democrats, as when they owned the slaves, own the black vote. A black Republican Senator is a House Negro in their eyes, and doesn’t count as true black representation. 

A white man in Tennessee who is a Democrat counts as black, and a black woman in Tennessee counts as white. 

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Angry Left plots to purge Virginia’s high court

After the Virginia Supreme Court rejected the results of the recent Democratic effort to effectively wipe out Republican representation in the state, Democratic pundits and activists have latched onto a proposal by Michigan State law professor Quinn Yeargain to gut the court by forcing the retirement of the current justices, appointing liberal activists, and then reversing the opinion. It is extremely telling that some are pushing the raw muscle play to retake power in Washington, particularly in light of the calls to pack the United States Supreme Court once the party is back in control.

Professor Yeargain declared on Substack that there is “a simple – and lawful – solution: Send the entire court into early retirement.” Under this plan, Virginia Democrats would adopt an absurdly low age for retirement in a gut-and-pack scheme: Yeargain suggested that they could set “the mandatory retirement of justices and judges after they reach a prescribed age, beyond which they shall not serve, regardless of the term to which elected or appointed.”

The current retirement age is 73.

Yeargain dismisses that number as “arbitrary” and says that the Democrats need only to “Make it 54 for Supreme Court justices – the age of the youngest justice, Stephen McCullough, who joined the majority opinion – and make it take effect immediately.”

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Supreme Court Clears the Way For Alabama to Throw Out Current Rigged Congressional Map – Sotomayor Fumes

The US Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Alabama to throw out its current rigged congressional map.

Alabama on Friday filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court asking the high court to allow it to throw out its current rigged congressional map.

Alabama’s request to toss out its racist, gerrymandered congressional map comes after the Supreme Court last month declared Louisiana’s newly-drawn Congressional map an unconstitutional gerrymander.

The case, State of Louisiana v. Phillip Callais (and the related Press Robinson v. Phillip Callais), stems from Louisiana’s woke lawmakers caving to left-wing judges and creating a second “majority-minority” congressional district.

Louisiana delayed its May 16 House primaries a couple of weeks ago after the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ruling.

Alabama petitioned the Supreme Court on Friday amid the gerrymander wars.

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ordered a response by Monday evening.

The high court on Monday issued the decision in a 6-3 vote.

The three liberal justices, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, dissented.

Sotomayor fumed in her dissent.

“The Court today unceremoniously discards the District Court’s meticulously documented and supported discriminatory-intent finding and careful remedial order without any sound basis for doing so and without regard for the confusion that will surely ensue. As with all vacaturs of this kind from this Court, the District Court remains free on remand to decide for itself whether Callais has any bearing on its Fourteenth Amendment analysis or if its prior reasoning is unaffected by that decision,” Sotomayor wrote.

NBC News reported:

The Supreme Court on Monday removed an obstacle to Alabama using a new congressional map in this year’s election that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts.

The court, over the objection of its liberal members, sent litigation over the Republican-drawn map back to the lower court, which could speed up the state’s effort to use its map.

The state has been battling civil rights plaintiffs for years over its congressional map, with a focus on whether a second majority-Black district was required to comply with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Angry Hillary/DNC lawyer Marc Elias was stunned after the Supreme Court allowed Alabama to redraw a new congressional map.

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Virginia Democrats Reveal a Radical Design

Virginia Democrats are doing an unwitting service to the whole country — by revealing just how hostile their party is to the most essential checks and balances.

Democrats violated the state’s constitution by pushing through a referendum to take four congressional seats away from Republicans.

But when Virginia’s supreme court threw out the illegal map, Democrats didn’t back down:

They started thinking of ways to get rid of every justice on the court, so they could pack it with new ones expressly picked to return a verdict more favorable to the party. 

If the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature could impose a mandatory retirement age of 54 on the justices — who are all older than that — they could be removed and replaced by compliant partisans.

This wasn’t just a harebrained scheme by state Democrats; this was discussed on a call with the highest-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

As breathtaking as this power grab might be, it’s consistent with the thrust of the national party’s thinking about doing away with troublesome constitutional checks.

Democrats have been arguing for decades to weaken or eliminate protections built into the Constitution to prevent a self-interested faction or party — even one with a short-term electoral majority behind it — from seizing total power.

Virginia today is exactly what James Madison and other framers of the Constitution were afraid of:

A faction — the Democrats — is using its success in the most recent election to try to rewrite the rules for future elections and is prepared to intimidate or destroy any institution that stands in its way, including the state’s supreme court. 

Virginia is not a solid-blue state — just a year ago, it had a full slate of Republican statewide elected officers.

Its congressional delegation is split, six Democrats to five Republicans. 

It may presently be out of reach for Republicans in presidential elections, but its legislative races and contests for statewide offices are competitive — Republicans had a majority in the House of Delegates as recently as three years ago.

Indeed, Virginia is so politically balanced that Democrats try to put a moderate face on their party by picking the likes of Abigail Spanberger, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine for governor or U.S. senator, candidates who present themselves as centrists.

Yet once Spanberger was sworn in as governor this year, with Democratic majorities in the general assembly, the push was on to throw the state constitution aside and redraw the congressional map to give Democrats 10 seats to one for the GOP, and now the justices who stopped that gerrymander face the party’s wrath.

Virginia’s constitution doesn’t seem to allow removal of sitting justices by imposing a mandatory retirement age.

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The Gerrymander Debacle In Virginia Leaves The Democratic Party With A Dangerous Agenda

“Eff around and find out”: That taunt from Hakeem Jeffries celebrating Virginia’s gerrymander did not age well.

On Friday, the House minority leader found out that Virginia’s Supreme Court was not quite as gleeful as he about Democrats’ attempt to virtually eliminate Republican representation in the purple state.

The court just cooked the party’s infamous lobster, a district over 100 miles long that was designed to help devour the GOP’s slender majority in the House of Representatives.

It also cooked the ambitions of Gov. Abigail Spanberger and the Democratic establishment, which tossed aside any pretense of principle in a raw political gambit.

The resulting faceplant is nothing short of legendary: Spanberger’s Democrats have succeeded in alienating half of the state.

For the governor, the court’s decision was particularly embarrassing.

Before assuming power, Spanberger denounced gerrymandering as “detrimental to our democracy and weakens the individual voices that form our electorates.”

She ran as a moderate, but Spanberger immediately turned sharply left once in office and called for the most extreme gerrymander in the nation.

The court found that effort was not only unconstitutional, but “wholly unprecedented in Virginia’s history.”

It characterized the state’s position as “a story of the tail wagging the dog that has no tail.”

While some of us had previously expressed skepticism over the rushed effort to circumvent the state constitution, the media almost exclusively relied on liberal experts who predicted the new districts would be upheld.

It was a calculated risk for Democrats, who have now burned their bridges with Virginia conservative and Republican voters.

As Winston Churchill said, “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

Exhilarating and unforgettable: In a purple state where politicians often require crossover votes to prevail, the redistricting push was not just partisan but personal for voters.

National Democrats will soon “find out” whether Jeffries was right to prematurely celebrate a victory that seemed to secure his anticipated elevation to Speaker of the House.

The party is facing a potentially catastrophic reversal of fortune.

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California County Discovers 596 Unopened Ballots Hidden in Locked Drop Box Months After Special Election Allowing Democrats to Redistrict

Officials in Humboldt County, California, have discovered 596 unopened ballots from last November’s special election still sealed at the bottom of a locked voting drop box.

The discovery came months after the election was certified and the ballots were legally supposed to have been destroyed.

The ballots were cast in the November statewide special election focused on Proposition 50, the redistricting measure heavily promoted by Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic leaders.

Prop 50 was designed to create even more Democratic advantages in the state’s congressional and legislative maps by giving the party-controlled legislature more power over redistricting.

The measure passed by more than three million votes statewide, so these uncounted ballots alone would not have altered the final result. However, the discovery raises serious questions about how many other votes may have been overlooked in California’s mail-in and drop-box-dominated system.

According to the Humboldt County Office of Elections, the ballots were left behind because of a basic but inexcusable staff error.

An election worker failed to properly empty the drop box after polls closed, and the box was then locked with the ballots still inside.

The mistake was only discovered during a routine inventory check earlier this month, long after the election had been certified on December 5.

Humboldt County Clerk-Recorder and Registrar of Voters Juan Pablo Cervantes gave a statement to the Los Angeles Times, taking full responsibility.

“That outcome is unacceptable and runs counter to the core of what this office stands for,” Cervantes said. “While the mistake occurred after an election worker did not follow proper procedures, the responsibility for what happened ultimately sits with me.”

County officials said the sealed ballots showed no signs of tampering. They have now contacted the California Secretary of State’s office to determine the proper legal steps for handling the late-discovered ballots, even though state law required them to be destroyed six months after certification.

In response to the situation, Humboldt County has already rolled out new safety measures, including a “lock out, tag out” protocol that requires every drop box to be physically verified as empty before final results are certified.

“I promise you that we are taking this seriously,” Cervantes added. “We will strengthen our processes and continue pushing toward the standard our community expects and deserves.”

President Donald Trump and Republican leaders have repeatedly highlighted the state’s universal mail-in voting, widespread drop boxes, and loose chain-of-custody rules as “ripe for fraud.”

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FURIOUS Democrats in Tennessee Demand SECESSION of Memphis from the State in Epic MELTDOWN After Republicans Erase Last Race-Based Democrat Stronghold

After Tennessee Republicans rammed through a new congressional map that dismantles the state’s lone Democrat-held congressional district centered in Memphis, at least one furious Democrat is now openly floating the idea of Memphis seceding from the Volunteer State altogether.

Tennessee State Rep. Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis), apparently unable to stomach the political reality of a deep-red Tennessee exercising its legislative authority, called for Memphis to separate from the state following the explosive redistricting battle.

As The Gateway Pundit reported just days ago, all hell broke loose in the Tennessee House when Republicans passed a new congressional map eliminating the state’s only majority-Black, Democrat-held district in Memphis.

The map, now signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee, cracks up Shelby County and spreads those heavily Democratic voters into three Republican-leaning districts stretching into rural and suburban areas.

A potential 9-0 Republican sweep in Tennessee’s congressional delegation, exactly what fair maps and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling against race-based mapmaking were designed to achieve.

The 9th District will now potentially see Rep. Steve Cohen, a white Democrat, likely replaced by Charlotte Bergmann, a black female Republican.

But the sore-loser Democrats can’t handle it. Instead of accepting the will of the people and the rule of law, they’re throwing the ultimate hissy fit: secession.

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Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Let It Throw Out Current Rigged Congressional Map

Alabama on Friday filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court asking the high court to allow it to throw out its current rigged congressional map.

Alabama’s request to toss out its racist, gerrymandered congressional map comes after the Supreme Court last month declared Louisiana’s newly-drawn Congressional map an unconstitutional gerrymander.

The case, State of Louisiana v. Phillip Callais (and the related Press Robinson v. Phillip Callais), stems from Louisiana’s woke lawmakers caving to left-wing judges and creating a second “majority-minority” congressional district.

Louisiana delayed its May 16 House primaries last Thursday after the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ruling.

Alabama petitioned the Supreme Court on Friday amid the gerrymander wars.

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ordered a response by Monday evening.

CNN reported:

Alabama filed an emergency appeal at the US Supreme Court on Friday asking the justices to allow the state to revert to a congressional map with one majority-Black district, setting up a potentially thorny question for the high court as the justices have openly sparred over whether partisanship has played a role in its redistricting decisions.

State officials rushed up to the court late Friday asking it to halt a lower court ruling that has blocked it from using a map it enacted in 2023. It did so based on a blockbuster decision last week on Louisiana’s congressional map that severely weakened the scope of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The appeal, which is seeking an answer by May 14, came hours after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation allowing for new US House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year’s elections.

“Alabama’s case mirrors Louisiana’s, and they should end the same way: with this year’s elections run with districts based on lawful policy goals, not race,” the state told the Supreme Court in its emergency appeal.

On Thursday, Tennessee became the ninth state to approve a new congressional map amid the redistricting wars.

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