Garrett DeViney

🚨 BREAKING: In a HUGE move, the Governor of Mississippi is calling a special session for REDISTRICTING — scheduled *3 weeks* after the Supreme Court’s expected ruling on race-based Voting Rights Act districts If SCOTUS guts the VRA, HUGE GAINS could come to Republicans in the south! LET’S GO! We need to play hardball! 🔥 GOVERNOR: “The entire world knows the Callais decision has not yet been handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is a decision that could (and in my view should) forever change the way we draw electoral maps.” “It is my belief and federal law requires that the Mississippi Legislature be given the first opportunity to draw these maps.” “And the fact is, they haven’t had a fair opportunity to do that because of the pending Callais decision.” “For those reasons, I am using my constitutional authority to allow the Mississippi Legislature to use their constitutionally recognized right to draw these maps once the new rules of the game are known following Callais.” “It is my sincere hope that, in deciding Callais, the U.S. Supreme Court will reaffirm the animating principle that all Americans are created equal and that when the government classifies its citizens on the basis of race, even as a perceived remedy to right a wrong, it engages in the offensive and demeaning assumption that Americans of a particular race, because of their race, think alike and share the same interests and preferences – a concept that is odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.” “The special session will take place on the calendar day that falls 21 days after the U.S. Supreme Court issues the Callais decision.”