Democrats ask Supreme Court to halt a Virginia ruling blocking new congressional districts | PBS News

Democrats have been set on their heels because, days after the Virginia ballot measure passed, the Supreme Court's conservatives reversed decades of rulings and effectively neutered the Voting Rights Act, paving the way for Southern states to eliminate some majority Black districts and pad Republican margins in Congress...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-ask-supreme-court-to-halt-a-virginia-ruling-blocking-new-congressional-districts

 

Blame John Roberts For Destroying the Voting Rights Act

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aCZaLgf94pE

 

Tennessee Republicans redraw maps to erase last Democratic, Black-majority district

Move comes days after supreme court ruling weakened Voting Rights Act protections against racial gerrymandering…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/07/tennessee-congressional-map-redistricting

 

Push for state-level voting rights acts renewed after supreme court ruling

Nine states have a version of voting rights act and 11 more, including several in the south, have introduced bills to protect voters in absence of federal protections…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/state-voting-rights-acts-supreme-court-ruling

 

‘An unmitigated s--t show fever dream’: Louisiana enters election chaos - POLITICO

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s decision has set off a scramble among local election heads, GOP state legislators and candidates on both sides of the aisle...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/01/lousiana-republicans-election-chaos-00902893

Hayes on SCOTUS limiting Voting Rights Act: "The story is NOT over"

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iK7zaG_GlP4

 

John Roberts’s Decades-Long Project to Neuter the Voting Rights Act - The Atlantic

The chief justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/justice-roberts-voting-rights-act/685193/ 

Harry Litman on Important Legal Stuff (Al Franken podcast)

Every day brings a new constitutional crisis. Donald Trump isn't just breaking norms... he's weaponizing the entire justice system against anyone who dare cross him. We're joined by former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman to cut through the chaos and explain what the hell is happening.

Trump promised that he would bring "retribution" to his second term - turns he wasn’t lying. So far he’s gone after James Comey, Letitia James, John Bolton. Harry breaks down why these prosecutions represent "rock bottom, ninth circle of hell" for the Justice Department—and why they're likely unconstitutional.

Harry also discusses Trump sending the National Guard into (Democratic-led) cities despite their objections. Is that legal? Some courts say yes, some say no. Now it's at the Supreme Court, which has already enabled Trump's overreach at every turn. Harry tells us why this is the single most dangerous thing happening right now.

We also delve into the complexities of Louisiana v. Callais, the Voting Rights Act case before the Supreme Court which could eliminate Section II and allow for the elimination of majority-minority districts (we’ll explain this!), likely imperiling 15 House seats now held by Democrats.

Plus, it turns out that it's easier than anyone thought to demolish the East Wing of the White House! At least we're getting a new ballroom.... Harry walks us through why this unprecedented destruction is probably illegal, but so outrageous that no legal framework even exists to stop it.

LISTEN to Harry's podcast, Talking Feds: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-feds/id1456045551
READ Harry's Substack: https://harrylitman.substack.com/

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/9q8RgrSd_uw?si=-8ArkJjoqxZxrlNy

Lawsuit to block new Texas map for redistricting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbB9edCuxUA

BREAKING: BOMBSHELL update from US Supreme Court on voting rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wdphkaguQ0

 

"FIVE ALARM FIRE!” BOMBSHELL Supreme Court development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM1UHD1e0uA

 

3 Supreme Court justices just tried to kill the ban on racist election laws | Vox

Although none of them explained why they voted the way they did, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch all voted to leave in place a lower court decision that effectively nullified one of the most consequential civil rights laws in American history...

https://www.vox.com/scotus/421091/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-turtle-mountain-howe 

 

Minnesota Democrats enacted state Voting Rights Act

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7652103633459993609/26442785826592823#

Supreme Court declines to intervene in Voting Rights Act challenge to Texas county map over objections from liberals | CNN Politics

US District Court Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown held that the initial maps were "fundamentally inconsistent" with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. He said the maps were "stark and jarring" and that they transformed Precinct 3 from one with the highest percentage of Black and Latino residents to that with the "lowest percentage." 

"The circumstances and effect of the enacted plan were mean-spirited and egregious given that there was absolutely no reason to make major changes to Precinct 3," the court held...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/12/politics/supreme-court-galveston-texas-voting-rights-act/index.html

Republicans finally get what they deserve with crushing lawsuits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfF30GaL2sM

Weekly Roundup: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

On the first segment Dan and Brad begrudgingly discuss Lauren Boebrert’s Beetlejuice scandal – and what it reveals about the Christian nationalist persona she’s cultivated.

In the second segment, they discuss a myriad of issues – from the firing of a teacher for teaching the Diary of Anne Frank to supposed discrimination against Whites at West Point to the charge that Merrick Garland thinks all Catholics are religious extremists.

In the final segment they discuss the Alabama redistricting case – and what it we now know about the dark money network funding the state’s defiance of the federal government. Spoiler alert: it’s an attempt to once and for all nullify the Voting Rights Act.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-beetlejuice-beetlejuice-beetlejuice/

Report: Leonard Leo is at the core of the Alabama redistricting dispute

A new report indicates that the driving force behind this campaign of defiance is likely Leonard Leo, the billionaire Catholic fundamentalist who has reshaped the Supreme Court through his vast dark-money network and the organization he co-chairs, The Federalist Society... 

 … What is clear is that strands of Leo's web of dark money are at work here, with the goal of eradicating the scraps of the Voting Rights Act that still exist. …

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/18/2194014/-Kavanaugh-ally-backs-Alabama-s-push-to-gut-Voting-Rights-Act

Did Richmond violate Voting Rights Act? A historic Supreme Court case. - The Washington Post

Today, the area Richmond annexed in 1970 still contains some of the city's wealthiest — and Whitest — neighborhoods. Across the South, as elsewhere, voting rights cases rage on. 

"I lived under the illusion for a number of years that that was pretty much behind us," Coates said. "But it's not. It's not at all."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/09/supreme-court-ruling-gerrymandering-richmond-voting-rights-act/

‘Historic and significant’: key lawyer’s verdict on Alabama supreme court ruling

The first, and most obvious result, is that Black voters in Alabama, for the first time since Reconstruction, for the first time in nearly 150 years, will have representation in more than one congressional district. And that representation will be elected from the Black belt region of Alabama, which is a historic but unfortunately extremely poor and disenfranchised region of the country where Martin Luther King began his ministry. Where the Selma to Montgomery march was. 

The second thing that's really significant is that the supreme court has affirmed the constitutionality of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which is the provision that has essentially integrated every level of government for the last 40 years. 

Third, the court has for the first time in a long time signaled both to legislatures and to Congress and to local government entities and to lower courts that the Voting Rights Act can and should be robustly enforced. This was an opinion by John Roberts in which he said, sort of echoing the language he used in Shelby county, that history did not end in 1960 and that courts can and should look to recent and ongoing discrimination and where appropriate find violations of federal law...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/18/alabama-supreme-court-allen-milligan

Opinion | The Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling is no win for democracy - The Washington Post

So while Thursday's ruling is a victory in the sense that it preserves what little is left of the Voting Rights Act, it's also a sobering reminder of just how far the court has gone not just to water down voting rights but also to affect electoral outcomes. These developments have made representative government much more elusive...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/08/supreme-court-alabama-redistricting-voting-rights-act/