Former President Barack Obama lashed out at the United States Supreme Court for crippling the racial gerrymandering schemes practiced by his party, and Americans were quick to put him in his place.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling on Wednesday, correctly declaring Louisiana’s newly-drawn Democrat-friendly Congressional map an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
The case, State of Louisiana v. Phillip Callais (and the related Press Robinson v. Phillip Callais), stems from Louisiana’s cowardly lawmakers caving to activist left-wing judges and creating a second “majority-minority” congressional district designed to elect a Democrat.
While the decision does not abolish the Voting Rights Act (VRA) or Section 2, ABC News notes that it raises the bar for challenges to election maps that liberal critics claim limit the ability of minority voters to elect candidates of their choosing, even if lawmakers did not intend to discriminate.
Leftist Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan whined in her dissent that the “gutting of Section 2 puts that achievement in peril.”
“If other states follow Louisiana’s lead,” Kagan added, “the minority citizens residing there will no longer have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.”
Obama agreed with Kagan that the VRA was gutted and slammed the Court for not only “weakening” minority voting power but “abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy.”
“Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities – so long as they do it under the guise of ‘partisanship’ rather than explicit ‘racial bias,” Obama wrote.
“And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach,” he added.
“The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers – not just in the upcoming midterms or in high-profile races, but in every election and every level.”
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities – so long as they do it under the guise of…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 29, 2026
Americans on X immediately responded by tearing Obama to shreds. They properly called him out on his previous and current racial demagoguery while noting that drawing districts on the basis of race is racist.
They also reminded him that he cheered on Virginia’s despicable, unconstitutional gerrymander just a week ago.
“Guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act”
Translation: “How dare they stop us from rigging districts by skin color to keep Democrat seats!”
You spent 8 years dividing America by race and now you’re mad the Court finally said equal protection under the law actually means…
— Gunther Eagleman
(@GuntherEagleman) April 29, 2026
You want to create congressional ghettos using black people as pawns to rig power for more race communism.
If white people were doing the same thing, you’d burn cities down.
It’s wrong, illegal and unconstitutional.
In a Republic, we have Rule of Law
not Rule of Race
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 29, 2026
It’s literally racist to require states to consider race when drawing districts.
You’re just mad that the stranglehold Democrats have on black votes is now going to be irrelevant in future elections.
— George (@BehizyTweets) April 29, 2026
Hit like if you think Obama was the biggest race-baiter there and still uses minorities as his pawns.
— I Meme Therefore I Am
(@ImMeme0) April 29, 2026
The Voting Rights Act is discriminatory in its core and allows states to redistrict based solely on skin color.
It doesn’t get more racist than that. It’s no surprise that the most racist and divisive president in history, Barack Obama, would support that.
— Paul A. Szypula
You have absolutely lost your mind.
YOU were the guy who was supposed to get us PAST sorting people by race.
You said judge people by character not color.
Now you’re calling it “voter suppression” when the Court strikes down a district drawn ENTIRELY BY SKIN COLOR??!!
The… pic.twitter.com/2NQ5Xq8Xmh
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 29, 2026
Mean while literally 8 days ago when the Dems did the same fuckinng thing lmao. pic.twitter.com/Gwrh2GFoaI
— Neetzsche Capital LLC (@NeetzscheLLC) April 29, 2026
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 29, 2026
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