The Left’s voting rights outrage is about power, not people

Published May 11, 2026 10:00am ET



The Left is good at theater. The Supreme Court’s April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais reinterpreted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for states to redraw majority-minority congressional districts. The response was immediate and predictable: rallies, social media outrage, Confederate flag burnings, and declarations of a second coming of Jim Crow.

Democrats who have spent decades herding black voters into racially engineered districts finally sense the jig is up. And they are not going quietly.

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