BREAKING: Republicans BLOCK Trump in SHOCK TWIST

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:03]Donald Trump just got some backtoback devastating nightmare news regarding the gerrymandering war that he started and we have to talk about it. But before we do, if you end up liking this video and you want to support the channel, please be sure to hit the like, subscribe, and alert bells before you go. All right, folks. As a reminder, it was Trump who started the gerrymandering wars last year when he ordered Texas to take five seats away from the Democratic Party.

[00:00:27]His reason for doing so was he reasonably predicted he would lose the midterms if the midterms were anything approaching competitive given his incompetence and unpopularity and corruption and the fact that his administration has been a total disaster. So he like any other you know authoritarian Republican tried to rig the game rig the contest in advance.

[00:00:47]Also, as you may recall, the Democrats actually surprisingly fought back and they fought back very effectively, starting with Gavin Newsome in California and then in other states as well. And for a time, the unlikely scenario, which is Democrats winning or at least fighting to a draw in the gerrymandering war, seemed to be the likely outcome. And then, of course, the Democrats got some backto backto back devastating news in the form of Virginia Supreme Court ruling and the United States Supreme Court in Louisiana v.

[00:01:15]Cala. And then when the dust settled, it seemed like Republicans would decisively win the gerrymandering war. But also remember, as we discussed, every pollster under the sun is saying that the political landscape is so bad for Trump that he is still likely to lose control of the House of Representatives.

[00:01:34]That he may have won the gerrymandering war, but winning the gerrymandering war is not enough to win control or maintain control of the House of Representatives.

[00:01:41]Which brings us to today. Trump got some back-to-back devastating news in the form of a court ruling by his own appointed judges and his Republican allies in South Carolina. So, let's dive in. Okay, starting with this. Trump appointed judges deal blow to president by blocking Alabama's GOP favoring congressional map as quote intentional intentionally discriminatory. A three judge panel, two of whom were appointed by Donald Trump, shot down Alabama's redistricted congressional map in a ruling released Tuesday after finding it to be quote intentionally discriminatory. As the midterm elections have loomed closer, Donald Trump has pushed GOP majority states to engage in non-traditional mid-decate redistricting in an effort to create more Republican leading House districts. Multiple states under both Republican and Democratic majority control have since redrawn their lines in a variety of ways under their laws. some by gubernatorial executive orders, some by bills passed by legislators, and some through voter ballot initiatives. It's far from certain how the new district lines will truly play out in the midterms. Several Republicans have expressed concerns that districts were drawn based on overly optimistic numbers from Trump's 2024 victory that polls show the GOP may not be able to sustain in November. In other words, a dummy mander that Trump has hemorrhaged so much support from the coalition that brought him back to power, you know, it will be 2 years in November, 2 years ago, that it could backfire, that they're they're going to be spread so thin that actually might help the Democrats. And numerous lawsuits have been filed across the country. This case in Alabama actually involves a redistricted map passed by the GOP major majority Alabama legislature in 2023 that reduced the number of majority minority districts in the state from 2 to one. The ongoing litigation has already traveled back and forth from the Supreme Court a few times and the appallet undertook a thoroughly detailed review of the case in the wake of the Supreme Court's opinion in Louisiana vala. That's the major Supreme Court decision which further helped the Republicans at least on paper with respect to gerrymandering. In that opinion, the nation's highest court banned racial gerrymandering, whether done to create more or fewer majority minority districts or to benefit or dilute minority voters pursuant to section two of the voting rights act in the 14th and 15th amendment of the constitution. The v the VR neither required nor allowed drawing district lines district lines based on race, the Supreme Court held. But in a 102page ruling posted Tuesday, Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and District Judges Anna Muscano and Terry Moira of the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ruled that the state's 2023 redrawn maps were in violation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Marcus was previously appointed to the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida by President Reagan and then was promoted to the appellet gig with the 11th Circuit by President Clinton. Both Manasco and Moira were appointed to the federal bench by Trump. The judges noted the impact of Clay and that the tight time frame involved with November's elections rapidly approaching, noting that the Supreme Court had expressly quote instructed us to give these cases further consideration in light of Cala, which they did, writing that they had quote carefully reviewed the extensive evidentiary record in these cases with fresh eyes in light of Cala. The court ruled that this case quote carried exceptional public importance and that they were having to make quote a critical decision on a very tight timeline with only two and a half months remaining before the Alabama primaries and 5 months before the general election in November. A preliminary injunction barring the use of the 2023 maps was appropriate, the judges wrote, because they would quote, "quire Alamians to dis to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districtricting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination and quote a race and using quote a raceblind map previously ordered by the court quote will not disrupt Alabama's elections because quote all candidates ran under the racebelind map until 15 days ago and all voters remain districted under the race blind map in electoral computer systems.

[00:05:30]The quoteun undisputed evidence left us in no doubt that Alabama's legislatively enacted plan, the 2023 plan, intentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the constitution.

[00:05:39]The opinion declared, quote, and our re-examination in light of Cala leads to the same conclusion.

[00:05:45]The court described in detail its reasoning, highlighting how the legislature had quote made a calculated, purposeful decision to refuse to provide the remedy for discriminatory vote dilution that our order, affirmed by the Supreme Court, required, and quote, well knew that a plan without an additional black opportunity district would dilute black Alamians opportunity to participate in the electoral process, and it intentionally enacted that very plan. The judges rejected the state's arguments that the legislature was motivated by partisan reasons, not unconstitutional race-based ones, because their quote exhaustive analysis of an extensive record, found quote, no evidence of a partisan motive, and in fact some evidence to the contrary, testimony from legislative leaders that quote overures from the National Party leaders did not affect their work.

[00:06:28]Quote, we reject in the strongest possible terms the state's attempt to finish its intentional decision to dilute minority votes with a veneer of legisl of legislative regularity. the court wrote. Further, the legislature knew well the dilutive mechanisms would prevent black voters in Alabama's black belt in Gulf Coast communities from having any opportunity to elect representatives of their choice. And the legislature employed precisely those mechanisms. The legislature also took a series of highly unusual steps along the way. Those unprecedented steps culminated in the enactment of a novel legislative findings, quote, the 2023 legislative findings, that departed sharply from the legislaturator's norms and made it impossible not only to remediate the vote delution we identified, but also to respect the long-standing community of interest the legislature identified in Alabama's black belt. These events, along with the legislator's contemporaneous statements about race, support only one inference.

[00:07:19]The purpose of the 2023 plan was to distribute black voters across districts to dilute their votes, at least in part because they are black. The court also rejected arguments from the state that there was not enough time before the 2026 elections because quote, "The record is clear and joining the constitutional 2023 plan will improve the administrative situation in Alabama, not worsen it." And so again, this is just devastating news for Donald Trump.

[00:07:46]Now, I'm sure that they will of Alabama will appeal and it is very possible that this gets overturned. But right now, this is a major setback and two of the three conservative judges, all conservative, but two of the three were appointed by Trump. So, Trump is facing backlash from his own appointees in the 11th circuit. But, as the Shamwow guy would once say, Billy Mays. But wait, there's more. The South Carolina Senate has voted against Republicans plan to jerrymander the state before the midterms. South Carolina's only majority black district will remain in place in a major blow to Trump's efforts to rig the midterm elections. So, let's take a look at Mark Elias's outfit democracy docket.

[00:08:23]In blow to Trump, South Carolina law makers dropped bid to pass Jerry Mander to midterms. The South Carolina Senate abruptly adjourned its special redistricting session Tuesday without passing a redistricting bill, a setback for Donald Trump's campaign to rig the 2026 midterms. With the state legislature now in recess until June 10th, the Republican effort to redraw the state's congressional map to dismantle the state's lone majority black district in time for the midterm elections is all but dead. The move came after a tumultuous few weeks in the state legislature, where the GOP majority, under pressure from Trump, quickly tried to pass a gerrymandered map ahead of the midterms after the Supreme Court gutted key voting rights act protections that had long shielded black voting power from racial gerrymandering. The move is a strong rebuke of Trump's efforts to pressure southern states to pass new gerrymandered maps to give the GOP more favorable odds of holding on to the US House of Representatives in the midterms. South Carolina is the first state to fail in passing a new map in Trump's gerrymander war since the Supreme Court's decision in Cala came down in late April. The South Carolina legislature rushed to pass a new map before early voting started Tuesday for the state's June 9th primary election.

[00:09:29]As of 1 p.m., more than 32,000 people cast their ballots. a single day record for a primary election in the state, according to the South Carolina Elections Commission. And some senators took to the floor to proclaim they ran out of time to pass a redistricting bill. Quote, "South Carolina citizens are going to the polls today," said Richard Cash. "And neither my conscience nor my common sense is going to let me stop an election that's already underway. This is a Republican. Senators voted 26 to 18 to adjourn the special session after a last stitch closure vote, a vote to end debate on redistricting and set up a vote on the new map as soon as Wednesday failed."

[00:10:02]Quote, I believe this is our last and best chance to pass this map, said Larry Grooms. Quote, and without Cloer, it's not going to happen. And so it has not.

[00:10:11]So folks, this is a big deal. Again, Donald Trump won the gerrymandering war, it looks like. And even now, right, with facing defeat in Alabama and in South Carolina, he still probably won the gerrymandering war. But that wasn't enough. And that's unlikely to be enough to save the Republicans in terms of the control of House of Representatives in November. So even if they prevailed in Alabama and in South Carolina, they still were likely to lose according to La Jane and G. Elliot Morris and Nate Silver and Dan Feifer and the consensus of pollsters and polling analysts is that the political landscape is too disfavorable to Trump and the Republicans for them to basically cheat their way to victory.

[00:10:50]Now that he's facing defeat in Alabama and South Carolina, it's less likely that they're going to be able to cheat their way into the majority of the in the House of Representatives. And we'd still need to be worried about 2028. The Cala decision, you know, which again will allow southern states to basically draw black majority districts out of existence.

[00:11:10]The thing we need to fear about that in the Jerry Mander war is the next salvo.

[00:11:14]Democrats in blue states need to be prepared to jerrymander the out of their states because 2026 was just the first round and it's important that we win. It's important that they fail. But now they're going to use the next two years to try to do what they failed to do here in 2028. And if Democrats don't respond in kind, it may be enough to keep us out of power or to cost us power in 2028. So we have to take this very seriously. The gerrymandering war is not over.

[00:11:42]the first round is over 2026. It may not be enough to stop uh Democrats in 2026, but it may be enough in 2028. So, we have to celebrate these victories and we have to encourage Democrats in every blue state, every blue state where they have the ability to do so. Jerrymander the out of those states and make it as competitive as possible. But this is big. This is a big deal. Trump being rejected, slapped down by two of his own appointed judges and the Trump aligned Republican legislature also giving him the finger and telling him no in South Carolina. Big deal. In the meantime, let me know what you think in the comments.