Supreme Court Directs Lower Courts To Reexamine Decisions In Voting Rights Act Cases
by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
The U.S. Supreme Court on May 18 ordered lower courts to reconsider rulings in two redis
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Howe—directing lower courts to scrap their decisions protecting Black and Native American voters. These weren't reasoned opinions. They were blank checks. The justices didn't explain their logic. They didn't hold oral arguments.
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They simply remanded the cases "in light of" the Court's April 29 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which declared that race cannot be the "predominant, overriding reason" for drawing congressional districts—even when doing so protects rights. Here's what the mainstream coverage buried: the Court is now weaponizing the language of colorblindness to dismantle Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last functional tool minorities had to challenge discriminatory redistricting. In the Louisiana case, state officials had created a majority-Black district specifically because a lower court found that omitting it would violate Section 2's nondiscrimination provisions. The Supreme Court majority—led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., joined by Clarence Thomas, Samuel A.
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Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—essentially said: protecting Black voters from discrimination is itself discrimination. The Mississippi case involves 2.2 million people, many of them Black voters whose districts were redrawn in ways that dilute their electoral power. The North Dakota case is starker. In 2021, North Dakota's Republican-controlled legislature redrew state legislative district lines, deliberately reducing majority-Native American districts from three to one. The Turtle Mountain Band, the Spirit Lake Tribe, and three Native American voters sued North Dakota Secretary of State Steve Gaskill, arguing the redistricting violated Section 2. A lower court agreed.
What I find striking is how the Court weaponized procedural invisibility to accomplish what it couldn't justify in plain language. This isn't about legal principle—it's about power consolidation, and the six-justice majority knows it.
The pattern here is unmistakable: when the Court wants to dismantle civil rights protections, it uses unsigned orders. When it wants to protect gun rights or corporate power, it issues 50-page manifestos with detailed reasoning. Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are telling us that minority voting rights are worth less than transparency. They're telling us that the Voting Rights Act—passed 59 years ago to stop states from systematically excluding Black voters—is now unconstitutional when actually enforced.
Congressional oversight has abdicated completely. Merrick Garland's Justice Department has filed briefs supporting the lower courts, then watched silently as the Supreme Court erased those arguments with no written response. Congress could pass legislation clarifying that Section 2 permits race-conscious redistricting to remedy discrimination, but Democrats control neither chamber firmly enough to act, and Mitch McConnell's Republicans would filibuster aggressively.
Watch whether lower courts in Mississippi and North Dakota rubber-stamp these remands without resistance. That's your measure of whether judicial independence means anything anymore.
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