Harmeet Dhillon

it creates one very liberal district, and then all the other districts become slightly more conservative.

That's generally the pattern in a red state or a southern state.

Instead, what you're going to have is more competitive districts, eventually, for everybody.

I think that's actually a really good thing.

Frankly, even though, of course, I'm a Republican, I go on Capitol Hill, I testify, I speak to members of Congress sometimes, and I despair at times.

the difficulty one has in dislodging any of these people from their positions.

Once they get elected, it seems almost impossible to replace them.

We could use more change.

We could use more fresh blood in politics.

And I think all Americans should view this as an opportunity to get some better people elected to Congress.

Well, first of all, this is a huge ruling and huge victory for equal protection and equal rights in the United States.

And I was proud to co-author the brief of the United States in this case that our Solicitor General's office did such a great job arguing.

This is actually going to impact all voters in the United States in the following way.

For decades, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

has been interpreted to require states to draw their lines for congressional districts incorporating race in circumstances where there has been discrimination in the past.

And basically, this assumes all of the southern states and some other states as well.

And so effectively, for decades, there have been safe districts drawn for

mainly Black, some Hispanic members of Congress from the Democrat Party.

And in order to accomplish that, they basically had to make the districts gerrymandered.

So in any state that has this type of protected Section 2 majority-minority district, those lines are going to change in coming years.