"Every major study has shown that mail-in voting is safe and secure, but the fact that four justices signed on to Trump’s crusade to get rid of mail-in ballots is highly disturbing and could embolden the president to attempt to take even more drastic steps to make it harder to vote"

Good news that SCOTUS preserved mail ballot grace periods but very disturbing that 4 justices led by Alito amplified Trump's conspiracies about mail voting, including debunked claims of "voter fraud" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Breaking: SCOTUS in 5-4 ruling by Barrett upholds Mississippi law allowing ballots to be counted if postmarked by Election Day but received after. Major disaster averted. A ruling the other way would've disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters in 2026 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Good day to rewatch this

Politicians who brazenly push to disenfranchise Black voters need to pay a political price everywhere they try it

My Mayor is Muslim My Bagel is Jewish My Christian Dior NY State Dems can gerrymander 4

Dems could draw more than 20 new blue districts by 2028, reversing GOP’s redistricting advantage They need to maximize their power everywhere they have it to counteract Trump & SCOTUS destroying VRA I break it down here, citing great research by @stephenwolf.bsky.social @davidnir.com

WTF is this NYT headline? What the Alabama + Callais decisions really signal is that Roberts Court will make up whatever the hell rule it wants to maximally help the GOP & prevent Black voters from having any representation

Last night, the Roberts Court once again handed Republicans another shocking gerrymandering win in Alabama. For the second time in three weeks, they green-lit an Alabama congressional map that a lower court has repeatedly found intentionally discrim inates against Black voters.

Roberts Court now engaged in blatant electoral warfare, doing everything it can to give Republicans as many seats as possible in midterms & completely erase Reconstruction amendments. If Dems don’t reform court when back in power there will be no democracy left to protect

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is so outrageous. Roberts Court said in Callais finding of intentional discrimination could invalidate gerrymandered maps. Lower court found Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters. SCOTUS still allowed map eliminating majority Black district to go through

Big redistricting news: New York Democrats plan to unveil and pass a constitutional amendment by Thursday that would let them redraw the congressional map in 2028 and target up to 4 GOP seats. They will need to pass it again next year and win a November 2027 referendum for it to take effect

In the wake of Louisiana v. Callais, Republicans are moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority-Black districts in the Deep South between now and 2028. That would trigger the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction.

Breaking: Louisiana legislature gives final approval to new 5-1 gerrymandered map eliminating majority-Black district represented by Dem Rep Cleo Fields Black voters comprise 33% of state population but will be able to elect candidate of choice in only 1 of 6 congressional districts

Republicans are moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority Black districts in TN, AL, LA, SC, MS, GA between now & 2028. This is what return to Jim Crow looks like www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Someone tell Lane Kiffin, who praised LSU for its “diversity,” that Louisiana Republicans are dismantling the congressional district of the Black member of Congress from Baton Rouge

Breaking: Louisiana House passes new gerrymandered map eliminating majority-Black district represented by Dem Rep Cleo Fields Black voters comprise 33% of state population but will be able to elect candidate of choice in only 1 of 6 congressional districts

A three-judge federal court panel with two Trump appointees just issued a stunning rebuke to the Roberts Court.

Breaking: South Carolina Senate just failed to invoke cloture on 7-0 gerrymandered map eliminating Jim Clyburn's majority Black district. It appears redistricting is dead for real this time as early voting begins today & 32,000 ballots already cast

Wow 3-judge panel with two Trump appointees restores second majority Black congressional district in Alabama for midterms. "We cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination"

Read @protectdemocracy.org: slush fund for insurrectionists, gutting of VRA & purging of GOP dissidents all related: "None are popular. None are smart politics. All are designed to hold power without winning public support — by overriding free & fair elections" www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-strate...

"We are in a new phase of electoral warfare by the Roberts Court. People need to understand that this is not just a conservative court, but a rabidly partisan one"

The Roberts Court keeps ruling like the GOP’s in-house counsel.

NEW 🧵: Here's how Dems could redraw 9 congressional maps by 2028 & target more than 20 GOP seats. The GOP tried to rig the national map in 2026, & Dems had few ways to respond. But Dems could fully counteract them by 2028. We have example maps for each state www.the-downballot.com/p/how-democr...

South Carolina House passes new 7-0 gerrymandered map at 12:30 am eliminating lone majority-Black and Democratic seat. Democracy once again literally dying in darkness. If Clyburn loses his seat a state that is 1/4 Black will no have Black US House reps www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Majority Black districts in the South that civil rights activists fought and died for are being wiped off the map in a matter of days but the insurrectionists who tried to overturn the 2020 election are being given $1.7 billion from the government

Read @ariberman.bsky.social on the new Jim Crow that SCOTUS has willingly enabled www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Talked to the 🐐🐐 @leahlitman.bsky.social & @kateshaw.bsky.social on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social about how Roberts Court waging electoral warfare against Dems & Black voters & why Callais right next to Shelby County as worst voting rights decision by court crooked.com/podcast/how-...

In Callais Alito claimed racism was over. Now Southern states rushing to revive Jim Crow, eliminating or set to eliminate at least 5 majority Black districts in TN, AL, LA, SC, MS. This is bigger than partisan politics. Multiracial democracy under all out assault www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We've got @ariberman.bsky.social on Posting Through It this week, talking about the GOP's mad dash at partisan gerrymandering ahead of 2026 midterms. By stacking the deck in their favor, Republicans hope to hold on to their control against the will of voters. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/1...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

In addition to fighting back against GOP gerrymandering, here’s another reason why state-level races so important in 2026: if Dems win trifectas in combo of MI, PA, WI, NV & AZ they can put National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over 270 electoral votes & elect next president with popular vote

There’s actually a chance the president could be elected by the popular vote in 2028 instead of the fundamentally undemocratic Electoral College. Watch:

Breaking: Louisiana Senate passes new gerrymandered map eliminating majority-Black district represented by Dem Rep Cleo Fields. African-Americans compromise 33% of state’s population but will be able to elect candidate of choice in only 1 of 6 congressional districts

TN eliminated only majority-Black district AL, LA eliminating majority-Black districts SC planning to oust only Black Democrat since Reconstruction MS planning to oust only Black rep GA planning special session to eliminate majority-Black districts This is what return to Jim Crow looks like

First Virginia, now Missouri. Republican appointees on MO Supreme Court upheld gerrymandered map targeting Dem Rep Emanuel Cleaver just hours after oral argument despite voter-approved ban on gerrymandering & 300k signatures submitted to block map missouriindependent.com/2026/05/12/n...

Louisiana Senate committee passed new gerrymander eliminating majority-Black district at 4:30 AM last night. Democracy quite literally dying in darkness lailluminator.com/2026/05/13/l...

Breaking: South Carolina Senate rebuffs Trump, declines to take up redistricting before midterms, preserving Jim Clyburn's majority-Black district South Carolina State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey: "We are the most gerrymandered Republican state in the country already"

1. SCOTUS orders Alabama in 2023 to create second majority-Black district 2. Federal court finds AL intentionally discriminated against Black voters 3. Roberts Court allows AL to use discriminatory map with primary 1 week away overriding multiple court rulings www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

By authorizing new Alabama gerrymander dismantling majority-Black district ONE WEEK before primary Roberts Court violated every norm & precedent it claims to follow Running out of ways to describe how partisan, hackish & corrupt this court is www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I spoke to @ariberman.bsky.social about the Southern states' mad rush to destroy Black and Brown voting power in the wake of Callais

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Roberts has been trying to kill the Voting Rights Act for more than 40 years, and it looks like he’s finally succeeded.

This is the very type of intentional racial discrimination that SCOTUS claims is still illegal even after Callais. SC is 25% Black but Norman says Black voters shouldn't be able to elect a candidate in any of the state's 7 districts

Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

New Marist poll has Dems +10 in House matchup. That's why Trump is openly celebrating that Rs are gerrymandering while Ds are getting stopped in Virginia. His explicit position is Rs should play by their own rules. On the pod, @ariberman.bsky.social is great on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

There’s one person squarely to blame for the destruction of the Voting Rights Act and American democracy writ large: Chief Justice John Roberts

The recent Supreme Court decision, which effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, represents the life’s work of John Roberts. The Roberts Court has now gutted the VRA on three different occasions, and Roberts wrote or joined all those opinions.

Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...