Raleigh Maxwell

The U.S. Supreme Court’s voting rights decision likely won’t reshape Georgia’s 2026 elections. Qualifying is over. Early voting is underway. Ballots are set. Candidates are already running under the current maps for the May 19 primary. But 2028 is a different story.

Redraw the TN maps.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s voting rights decision likely won’t reshape Georgia’s 2026 elections. Qualifying is over. Early voting is underway. Ballots are set. Candidates are already running under the current maps for the May 19 primary. But 2028 is a different story.

With a weakened Section 2, Republicans could in Georgia could adopt a map similar to this. It would flip two majority-Black seats from 🔵 to 🔴. Only flipping one seat would be safer, given the blue trending Atlanta Metro Area.

I don’t typically make news on a Friday afternoon, but today I am going to make an exception: I’m calling a special session. During the recently completed regular session, the Legislature discussed drawing new maps to comply with a decision from a federal judge from the Northern District of Mississippi - a decision that has been appealed to the 5th Circuit and the appeal has been heretofore stayed pending future U.S. Supreme Court decisions. 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.

Republicans have introduced the following bills to honor Donald Trump: — Carve Trump’s face into Mount Rushmore — Replace Benjamin Franklin with Trump on $100 bills — Make Trump’s birthday a national holiday — Conduct “Trump Derangement Syndrome” research at the NIH — Give Trump a “Congressional Gold Medal” — Mint a $250 bill featuring Trump’s face — A resolution saying Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize — Rename Washington, DC public transit from WMATA to “WMAGA” — Award a “Donald J. Trump Peace Prize” from the State Department — Honor Trump’s efforts to annex Greenland — Rename the Kennedy Center the "Donald Trump Center for the Performing Arts" — Rename Dulles International Airport to the “Donald J. Trump International Airport” — Erase Trump’s 2019 impeachment — Erase Trump’s 2021 impeachment