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Even as Trump is dead set on doing unpopular things like focus on the ballroom and the war in Iran, the Supreme Court's conservative majority and Florida Republicans are riding to his rescue.
In a ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court threw out Louisiana's congressional map and hollowed out the Voting Rights Act even further.
Louisiana's Republican governor announced on Thursday that the state will delay its House primaries on May 16th in order to redraw the map, which could see at least one majority black district drawn out of existence.
In her dissent, which she read from the bench, Justice Kagan wrote, the court's decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality and electoral opportunity and said that it would have grave consequences.
Alex, what do you make of this ruling?
There's so much to say about this ruling, and I'll get to the political impacts in a second.
But John Roberts, who has gotten a bit of a improved reputation over the years about some of the rulings and the tariff case, a couple other anti-Trump ones.
But long before Trump, John Roberts' main project as chief justice was the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
Through these decisions, Shelby County first holder, there's Brnovich, there's now this one.
This is to destroy one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in American history.
All the headlines are like, they hollowed out, which I said here, they limited.
That is maybe true in the words that Alito used, but in actual practice, they struck down Section 2, as we understand it.