Allison Sinclair

Good luck with that one, Governor…

On Monday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the opinion finding that Mississippi’s current Supreme Court map violated the Voting Rights Act and must be redrawn.   As a result, the injunction preventing Mississippi from using the current Supreme Court map was dissolved. This means Mississippi’s current map can still be used in all future elections.   While I always believed that the District Court’s opinion was erroneous and eventually would be overturned on appeal, to preserve the Mississippi Legislature’s right under both state and federal law to have the first opportunity to redraw the Supreme Court map, I set a special session of the Mississippi Legislature that would have begun next Wednesday. However, because the District Court’s injunction has been dissolved and the current Supreme Court map again is in full force and effect, there is no need for the Legislature to draw a new map.  I am recalling and dissolving my April 23, 2026, Proclamation which called for a special session to redraw Mississippi’s Supreme Court map next Wednesday. As I said this morning, I expect lawmakers to redraw congressional lines sometime BETWEEN NOW and 2027 elections. I also expect them to redraw legislative and Supreme Court lines sometime between now and 2027 elections. Today is not the end of the redistricting process — it is just the beginning! Stay Tuned…

“That’s the real tragedy – the racial solidarity black Americans, particularly Alabamians, discovered out of political necessity when their ancestors were truly under siege – has today become a golden calf for state and national Democrats.”