They used the Constitution to destroy the Constitution.

Not metaphorically. Literally. Today the Supreme Court took the 14th Amendment,

written in blood, ratified in the wreckage of the Civil War to protect Black Americans from political erasure,and used it to erase them.

That is not legal reasoning. That is a conjuring trick. And Samuel Alito has been practicing it for twenty years.

Let's be precise about what happened today. A state with a population that is more than one third Black had one majority-Black congressional district out of six. Courts said that violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered it fixed. Louisiana redrew the map. The Supreme Court then struck down the redrawn map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. They used the Constitution to block the remedy for the Constitution's own violation. The snake eating its tail and calling it nutrition.

The White House called it a complete and total victory for American voters. Which American voters. Name them. Because the NAACP named theirs,Black voters in Louisiana who have now been told by six unelected lawyers in robes that their concentrated voting power is an offense against the equal protection of white voters who have held that power for two hundred years without interruption.

Kagan wrote that this lays the groundwork for the largest reduction in minority representation since Reconstruction. Since Reconstruction. We are not talking about a step backward. We are talking about a return to a specific historical era that ended with federal troops and constitutional amendments that this court just finished dismantling.

Ron DeSantis was already redrawing Florida's maps before the ruling came down. He knew. They all knew. This was not jurisprudence. It was coordination.

The Voting Rights Act was the guardrail. They didn't chip at it. They removed it, ruled the removal constitutional, and called it a victory for civil rights.

John Lewis bled on a bridge for this. And six people who will never face a voter again just decided it didn't count.