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What will the new congressional redistricting mean for the House?

In a widely expected, but nevertheless bombshell decision, the US Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down racial gerrymandering — Congressional redistricting plans designed to ensure black and Hispanic candidates win seats by requiring most voters in the district are of the same race. The Court overturned a lower court decision holding that such “majority-minority” congressional seats were required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It’s one of the most consequential decisions in years.  

The response from the left was predictable sky-is-falling rage. Hakeem Jefferies referred to the Supreme Court as “illegitimate” (just three days after an attempted assassination of the president) and Chuck Schumer reprised President Biden’s claim that any change to voting laws not favoring Democrats was automatically Jim Crow 2.0.

But it’s important to know what the Supremes did and didn’t do.

Importantly, the Court reaffirmed legal protections against any efforts intended to dilute or impede the minority vote. It even affirmed the use of race-based remedies for any actual discrimination in voting procedures. 

But beyond that, the majority made clear, as it did on affirmative action in college admissions, that race has no place in public policy decision-making whatsoever. 

Essentially, the court repeated Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2007 aphorism: “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of........

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