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Chapter 1: What is President Trump's greatest legacy regarding the Supreme Court?
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On the basis of President Trump's astonishingly great Supreme Court alone, they are idiots. Obviously, President Trump has done a lot of great things. He shut the border. He arrested Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, wiped out DEI in the executive branch, went after the trans movement, attacked Iran's nuclear and missile capacity, and a lot more. But...
His greatest legacy by far, his most lasting legacy by far, will be the astounding Supreme Court that he put into place. They overturned Roe versus Wade. They allowed states to ban the transgender mutilation of children. They've stood for religious freedom.
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Chapter 2: How did the Supreme Court's recent ruling impact congressional districting?
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That there are millions of people who are voting fraudulently, which is not true. And there is a similar countervailing conspiracy theory on the left that vast voter suppression is happening in the United States.
Chapter 3: What controversy surrounds Erika Kirk and Candace Owens?
And that is also not true. In fact, in several elections in the recent past, the black turnout rate was higher than the comparative white turnout rate. But here is Kamala Harris doing this routine also. Again, everyone's a victim.
No, they have had an agenda that has been in place for decades. to get to this very moment and beyond, which is to make it so difficult for the people to vote that they won't, because they know the people are not stupid, and see the corrupt, incompetent, callous administration that is in the White House right now. And they're so damn scared.
Chapter 4: What accusations did Candace Owens make against Erika Kirk?
They're so damn scared of losing the midterm.
And by the way, we should mention that the biggest beneficiary of racialized voting in the United States was and is Kamala Harris. Right now, Kamala Harris is the most likely candidate to win the Democratic nomination. Why? I mean, she just lost to Donald Trump. She's a terrible candidate. Why?
The answer is, as everyone knows, that she is going to wildly outperform with black voters in South Carolina. That is racialized voting. That is what it is. I mean, she does this routine where she kind of goes into a particular way of speaking. She's kind of cosplaying and then she'll drop out of it. Here we go.
I'm a black woman in America. So, I mean, you know. I mean, some people are just like, oh, but you're a congresswoman. I'm a black woman first. And so, you know, the level of disrespect that is continuously lobbed against us as black women, you know, for me, I'm like, wait a minute now. I am one of the 535 most powerful people in this country.
And for some reason, you think we're on the same level, but you're gonna disrespect me? Like, it's not gonna happen.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Supreme Court's decision on race-based redistricting?
It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.
OK, she is not lacking respect because she's a black woman. She's lacking respect because she was a terrible candidate. I should point out at this point that her district in Texas was only 40 percent black and she ended up as a representative anyway. And actually, when she was running for Senate, she won 45 percent of the predominantly white counties. So clearly, America is deeply racist.
Rashida Tlaib, again, another demonstration of how terribly racist America is that we can have a terrorist and like Rashida Tlaib in Congress. She wants to expand the court and impeach the justices. You know, Governor J.B. Pritzker, he's saying that Republicans are incapable of winning majority, so they're making it harder to vote.
The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act.
I'll just say it. Donald Trump and Republicans can't win majorities at the ballot box this November, so they're going back to a playbook as old as this country, making it harder for black and brown Americans to vote. On every front, Trump and his allies are assaulting the institutions of our democracy. Enough is enough.
Okay, so what exactly did the Supreme Court do here that is totally setting off the Democrats? Why are they going so insane? Why are they going so nuts? Okay, in order to understand what was the actual case here, there was a redistricting that was forced by a court in Louisiana. And that redistricting is insane. So I want to show you some maps.
Okay, the first map here was the original map of Louisiana's districts. Okay, this is the map of Louisiana's districts. And what you see here is that there were six congressional districts here in Louisiana. And what you have is A first district that is sort of disparate and a second district that is sort of disparate. A sixth that is somewhat more cohesive. A third that is cohesive.
A fourth and a fifth that are somewhat cohesive. That's what you're looking at when you look at this map. You have a sort of salamander-like majority black district. That would be the second congressional district in Louisiana. That was Louisiana's map from 2013 to 2022. Then a court ruled that they couldn't use that map. So they drew another map.
And that map, again, the congressional districts look pretty cohesive. What you have there, and again, the way that the congressional districts are split in Louisiana is fairly even. The Louisiana districts, it's not like all six districts are represented by Republicans. That's not the way that it works. But even if it were to work that way, that would be a partisan gerrymandering.
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Chapter 6: Why are Democrats upset about the Supreme Court's ruling?
When does section two require redistricting? Only when circumstances create a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred. So Justice Alito is writing. He was joined by all the conservative justices. Kagan dissented, and she was joined by Sotomayor and Jackson.
And just to go through the decision, the 15th Amendment provides that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. And Section 2 of the 15th Amendment authorizes Congress to enact appropriate legislation to enforce that amendment.
So the 1965 Voting Rights Act comes about, and there are a couple of sections that theoretically implicate redistricting and how districts are drawn. One is Section 5. So Section 5 originally had rules about what was called preclearance.
If you were in a historically discriminatory part of the United States, the Jim Crow part of the United States, you actually had to preclear your maps with the federal government in order to show that you weren't discriminating. And in 2013, in a case called Shelby County versus Holder, the Supreme Court found, hey, look at the calendar. It's now 2013. It is no longer 1965.
And therefore, many of the qualifications that were being used to say which parts of the United States had to engage in preclearance, they were no longer appropriate.
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Chapter 7: How is the Democratic Party responding to the rise of Graham Platner?
And so Section 5 preclearance was no longer forced. Now, what you will notice is that in the aftermath of Section 5 going away, there are still a lot of black representatives in the United States from the South. Right. That map that Chuck Schumer was showing earlier of the map of congressional districts in 2024 showed a lot of Democrat political districts in the South.
That was after Section 5 of the VRA was basically ruled to be non-applicable. OK, so now there is an attempt to invoke Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. So Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act says.
No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any state or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of the United States to vote on accounts of race or color. So as you may notice, there's nothing in there about redistricting.
What that's really talking about mostly is things like poll taxes or literacy tests or things that are designed to get black people not to vote. And again, the Voting Rights Act was necessary because from the end of the Civil War to basically the Civil Rights Revolution of the 60s, there were heavy attempts by various Jim Crow states to stop black people from activating politically.
And that included discriminatory tests designed to stop black people from voting. That's why the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were passed. And so that set up some elements of the law in both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act that would seem to be facially violative of the Constitution of the United States.
It's a point Christopher Caldwell has made, convincingly, in my view. And there are elements, for example, of the Civil Rights Act that pretty clearly discriminate against private business owners, for example, in a way that would be unconstitutional, but the CRA basically overrules that. And the VRA gets involved in what normally would be state matters in order to enforce the 15th Amendment.
So how about redistricting? So there is a case called Gingles from 1986, which set out a four part test to prove vote dilution. So vote dilution is the idea that the Voting Rights Act can stop redistricting that dilutes the black vote.
So the example that Elena Kagan uses is let's say that you have a circle shaped black population in terms of its sort of demographic location inside a square size state. So you have the circle and then you have the square, okay? And inside that black circle, You would have a group of people voting for a particular candidate.
And so what the state does in order to water down the black vote is they say, we don't want black people to have that much autonomy. So we are just going to carve the state into four separate parts and we are going to dilute the black vote so that 25% of each part of that circle goes into a broader square, right? That'd be vote dilution. Well, according to the Gingell's precedent,
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Chapter 8: What challenges are major cities facing under Democratic leadership?
Quote, vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South, where many Section 2 suits arise. At the time of the act's passage, the nation had faced nearly a century of entrenched racial discrimination in voting, an insidious and pervasive evil which had been perpetuated in certain parts of our country through unremitting and ingenious defiance of the Constitution.
So things have changed. Black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate, even turning out at higher rates than white voters in two of the five most recent presidential elections nationwide and in Louisiana. Also, a full-blown two-party system has emerged in the states where Section 2 suits are the most common.
Gingles arose, the original Supreme Court case we mentioned, in the context of a one-party system in which black and white voters had starkly different voting patterns despite their affiliation within the same party.
In the area involved in Gingell's, an overwhelming majority of white voters did not vote for any black candidate in the Democratic Party primary elections, which for all practical purposes selected the candidates who would ultimately obtain office. And in the general, white voters in heavily Democratic areas often ranked black candidates last among Democrats.
Such intraparty disparities showed black voters had less opportunity to elect their preferred candidate because of race, not because of partisanship. So you're saying those were intrademocratic fights. Okay, so the majority decision says... That basically Section 2 has become obviated by racial progress in the United States.
Justice Thomas, being the most strict constructionist on the bench, says basically Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act should not have applied to districting at all. He says, as I explained more than 30 years ago, I would go further and hold that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all.
The relevant text prohibits states from imposing or implying a voting qualification prerequisite to voting or standard practice or procedure in a manner that results in denial or abridgment of the right to vote based on race. This does not include a state's choice of one districting scheme over another. So Elena Kagan, in her dissent, she says, no, no, no, this is racism.
And she says, this part's pretty funny, actually. She says... In the states where that law continues to matter, the states still marked by residential segregation and racially polarized voting, minority voters can now be cracked out of the electoral process.
Now, I'd just like to point out at this point that if you're talking about residential segregation, it turns out that actually, actually, some of the most segregated parts of the United States are in areas that Elena Kagan would leave alone under the VRA. Here is a map from the left-wing Brookings Institute. Brookings is a liberal institution.
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