Ladies and gentlemen, the Supreme Court has just dropped a nuclear bomb on politics in this country

with a landmark ruling on the Voter Rights Act, essentially saying the southern states, the

Republican states don't need to have forced racial gerrymandering. In fact, in some instances, they actually have to get

rid of them. If the Republicans decide to take this ruling to heart and now under this pretext,

redraw their maps, it will remove 12 Democrat seats and boost the Republicans 12 seats in Congress, creating what appears

to be a near permanent majority for the Republican Party, which is why I'm pretty sure

they're not going to do it. But anyway, opinions aside, the crux of this has to do with the fact that for a long time,

there have been congressional districts in southern states made specifically based on race.

They're calling them majority minority districts.

And the argument was, if you got a bunch of black people in the state,

they deserve to have their own representative based on nothing but their race. And I think that's

just plum nuts. To create members of Congress whose sole or principal issue is their race is to create permanent structural

racism in this country.

Now, the left argues that black people have interests based on race because of historical

inequities and thus they should get their own congressional districts where they can elect

who they think will represent

them better. Now, perhaps that made sense a long time ago. And this is something the Supreme

Court actually brought up. Perhaps there should have been a sun setting. Perhaps it should have been

that over time, these provisions become weaker. Now, the interesting thing, Alito writing for the

majority, did not say they should throw out

the Voting Rights Act, but that there are certain ways it must be addressed, with some conservative

commentators saying, brilliant move.

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