SCOTUS Ends VRA Map Manipulation | Hegseth Fires Back | 4/30/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court drops a bombshell 6-3 ruling striking down racial gerrymandering under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, potentially handing Republicans a dozen or more House seats. Pete Hegseth unloads on a congressman who called Iran a quagmire, and Erika Kirk delivers a powerful message on dehumanization in American culture.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, April 30th, 2026. |
| 0:02.6 | SCOTA says it's time for Southern governors to get moving oil prices to the moon yet again. |
| 0:07.9 | And it's time to listen to Erica Kirk. |
| 0:09.7 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:14.6 | Huge case out of the Supreme Court yesterday in a six to three decision. |
| 0:18.3 | The Supreme Court issued a shocking ruling about congressional maps, |
| 0:22.3 | specifically one in Louisiana, that was drawn to give black voters a boost in representation. |
| 0:27.7 | The case, Louisiana v. KLA, involved a challenge by Louisiana voters in a congressional district |
| 0:33.8 | that was redrawn after the 2020 census. The Supreme Court struck the map down and |
| 0:38.8 | concluding it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander that cannot be justified under Section 2 |
| 0:44.5 | of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Samuel Alito, penned the majority opinion of the court and was joined |
| 0:50.4 | by his five fellow justices, conservative justices, |
| 0:58.3 | Elina Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Kintaji Brown Jackson dissented, |
| 1:04.3 | and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in which he was joined by Neil Gorsuch. |
| 1:09.6 | The Supreme Court decided the time had come to deliver a clear answer on what for 30 years had simply been assumed about the Voting Rights Act case lie. |
| 1:13.4 | Essentially what this means, as I just said there in different terms, |
| 1:18.2 | you no longer have to draw maps based on representations. |
| 1:22.8 | And the way the Voting Rights Act is written is that you basically cannot have an outcome where there is a |
| 1:29.9 | protected minority that is quote unquote underrepresented. Now, underrepresented, that's my |
| 1:34.9 | terminology, but that's kind of the idea of the Voting Rights Act. So you can draw congressional |
| 1:40.8 | districts now the way that they kind of make sense or make sense for you |
| 1:44.8 | or the people of your state believe they want them to be. So that's kind of the outcome of what we |
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