Donald Trump<\/a> praised the decision in a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n“Today’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision in the Callais case is a BIG WIN for Equal Protection under the Law, as it returns the Voting Rights Act to its Original Intent, which was to protect against intentional Racial Discrimination,” he said.<\/p>\n
Barack Obama meanwhile was sharply critical of the ruling.<\/p>\n
“Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities – so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit ‘racial bias’,” Obama said.<\/p>\n
“And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.”<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court decision was specifically overturning a congressional map in Louisiana.<\/p>\n
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President Lyndon Johnson shakes Martin Luther King’s hand after signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum)<\/p>\n
But Republicans are eyeing the decision as a means of holding power in Congress.<\/p>\n
“Right now, this only applies to Louisiana, but states can challenge their congressional maps and, with precedent, pick up Republican seats,” Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale said.<\/p>\n
“If states are aggressive, we could see a healthy majority in the House perpetually.”<\/p>\n
In the south of America, Republicans are now rapidly moving to draw black Democrats out of their seats.<\/p>\n
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The current congressional map of Tennessee. In the bottom left corner is the only Democratic seat, anchored in black majority Memphis. (Dave’s Redistricting App) \/ Governor Marsha Blackburn’s proposed map would split Memphis in three. (X)<\/p>\n
Tennessee’s governor has already released a draft map that would split the black majority seat in Memphis into three seats where white voters would have overwhelming advantages.<\/p>\n
And in Florida this morning, Republicans in the legislature redrew the congressional map that would give their party a 24-4 seat advantage.<\/p>\n
Prominent Republicans in Mississippi are already pushing to abolish that state’s only black majority seat.<\/p>\n
And the loss could be even bigger in Georgia, where Democrats hold four black majority seats.<\/p>\n
As a consequence of the law being changed, Democrats could lose more than a dozen seats in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
Countless more could be lost in state legislatures.\ufeff<\/p>\n
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Donald Trump has celebrated the axing of a critical part of the Voting Rights Act. (AP)<\/p>\n![\"Louisiana](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e5aa81c0-5935-4633-89ca-2acfee82d561.jpeg\")
Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields is near-certain to lose his seat to a white Republican. (AP)President