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A congressional member passionately speaking during a committee meeting with a focus on governance and policy discussions.
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The redistricting wars are escalating across America, and conservatives just scored another major courtroom victory.

The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has unanimously removed a lower court block that forced Mississippi to redraw judicial district maps based on race, a decision that could now open the door for Republicans to revisit the state’s congressional map, including the heavily Democrat-leaning district represented by the sham January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson.

The judges vacated U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock’s 2025 liability order that demanded the state redraw its 1987-era Supreme Court districts to create greater “Black voting strength” under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The decision, handed down just yesterday, sends the case back to the district court in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which made it crystal clear: racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional and race cannot be the predominant factor in drawing electoral maps without ironclad justification.

More from Magnolia Tribune:

Governor Tate Reeves (R) shared the Fifth Circuit’s action on Monday, saying, “Post Callais, both the plaintiffs and the State jointly requested this action.”

Reeves called it “a good day for those who believe in the principle that all Americans are created equal. A good day for law and order. A good day for Mississippi!”

The governor said in late April that he would call lawmakers into a special session 21 days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Callais to address state Supreme Court redistricting. That timeline would see lawmakers back in Jackson next week.

Soon after the ruling in Callais, leaders in both the Mississippi House and Senate instructed staff attorneys to prepare analysis on the ruling’s impact on state Supreme Court redistricting in Mississippi ahead of the likely special session.

The Gateway Pundit reported last month that Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves announced he is calling a special legislative session for redistricting once the US Supreme Court rules on voting rights.

Governor Reeves said the legislature will convene 21 days after the Supreme Court issues a ruling.

Reeve wrote on X:

“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.”

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