Stu Burguiere
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They're constantly doing things to try to take advantage of their situations.
And they did this a couple of different times.
One was when it came to trying to expand the Voter Rights Act to the maximum levels possible.
So they kept harassing these states
to change their districts over and over and over again so that they could get more majority minority districts, right?
These are districts where the majority of the voters are minorities and they will, in theory, I guess, the assumption is minorities just vote for their own skin colors, so they will elect other minorities.
That's basically the very cynical way Democrats looked at it for years and years and years and years.
They got courts to back them up for a long period of time.
Then, of course, this goes to eventually, you know, this happens in Louisiana and Louisiana.
They wind up challenging this.
It goes all the way to the Supreme Court.
And the Supreme Court says what I think is pretty obvious here, which is it's not supposed to be done by skin color.
It's supposed to be the exact opposite of that.
We're supposed to do really almost any other thing, Glenn.
You can draw a line based on almost anything else except race, which is hilarious because it's the one thing they kept trying to put in.
So they tried this and the Supreme Court wound up saying, I know you covered this, but it's like they wound up saying, look, you can't just draw these lines based on race.
You can use it as kind of
one thing in a recipe if you really want to, but you can't just draw these racial lines, they're not gonna hold.
So they didn't hold and this wound up burning the Democrats in a big way that it could wind up getting a bunch of seats to go from Republicans to Democrats.
Because now these states in the south who have been doing this for years,