Mike Johnson shrugs off Black voters' concerns about GOP gerrymandering: 'This brings back fairness'
Source: The Independent
Sunday 17 May 2026 11:52 EDT
House Speaker Mike Johnson said that attempts to redraw his home state of Louisianas congressional lines, which could give Republicans an advantage at the risk of depriving Black voters of representation, was about fairness.
In conversation with Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday, Johnson was asked what his message was to Black Americans after the Supreme Court delivered a severe blow to the Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court issued a long-awaited opinion, and I think it was long overdue, and they stated the obvious, that drawing congressional lines must be fair, Johnson said. You cannot draw lines on the basis of race, and that's what was done in Louisiana.
Last month, the Supreme Court handed down Louisiana v Callais, which called the states inclusion of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.. The ruling all but killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 law that prohibited laws that discriminate on the basis of race.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-johnson-black-voters-gerrymandering-b2978177.html
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(16,977 posts)littlemissmartypants
(34,339 posts)If he looks too effective at it, one wonders. Will DJ get jealous?
dalton99a
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(9,733 posts)I hope his dick falls off
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(1,378 posts)on the fireplance mantle
Stargazer99
(3,563 posts)If the white race becomes less in number than the other races that politics will take the white dominance away
That could explain why this anti abortion crap came up. Did I strike a nerve?
tulipsandroses
(8,298 posts)Yep. Doesnt matter that we are the least represented almost anywhere.
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(2,890 posts)G'damn crackr *ss, smurf, M'FER.
AZ8theist
(7,626 posts)RELEASE MIKE JOHNSONS GRINDR PROFILE!!!
FUCKING RACIST, HYPOCRITICAL SCUMBAG.