In the aftermath of the 2020 census, the state of Louisiana reconfigured its voting districts in an apparent effort to give Black voters a greater say in the electoral process. On April 29, the Supreme Court ruled against such tactics. As it is generally assumed the majority of Blacks will vote Democrat, the redistricting was no doubt incited by those on the Left. Justice Clarence Thomas, however, a Black conservative, explained that the court’s decision was based on the Constitutional Principle that prioritizing one race over another ought not to be an issue in any of America’s legal mandates.
Just yesterday, May 12, the Supreme Court of Missouri made a similar ruling, demanding the state’s gerrymandered map, which had been reconfigured in the Democrats’ favor, be redrawn with impartiality.
The main focus of Thomas Fitton’s Judicial Watch is the integrity of America’s elections. The group’s various challenges have seen the removal of hundreds of thousands illegal voters from the country’s voting lists. Naturally Fitton deems rulings such as those mentioned above as victories for electoral integrity. As he is a conservative, he is in no way surprised that in each case power hungry Democrats appear to have been the villains. And yet when one investigates the mainstream reaction to the rulings in Louisiana and Missouri, one is confronted with the widespread belief that as the governors of both states are now Republicans, that party has sleazily been granted the right by corrupt courts to gerrymander to its heart’s content!
There are objective, population-based criteria by which every state ought to define its voting districts. For an area of 50,000 people to have the same electoral clout as another with a population of over a million, is clearly absurd. Gerrymandering, Fitton implies, is preeminently a sin of the Left. Indeed as Blacks constitute only 20% or so of the U.S. population, even the vilest of “white supremacists” might find it unnecessary to silence them by manipulating the political map. Indeed as Dinesh D’Souza pointed out in a May 6 post, should the Republicans, who control more state governments that the Democrats, resort to the gerrymandering tactics of the latter, they would unequivocally win almost 100 more congressional seats than their opponents.
As Clarence Thomas has pointed out, Democracies are based on the Principle of Majority Rule. One can only hope that both Democrats and Republicans eschew the vile practice of gerrymandering out of simple respect for the people they are supposed to represent.