MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace slammed the Supreme Court on “Deadline: White House” after the conservative majority dealt another major blow to the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday. In a 6-3 ruling, the court struck down Louisiana’s 2024 election map, ruling the creation of a second majority-Black congressional district to be “an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”
Wallace said the decision was “a complete and utter perversion of the original purpose of the Voting Rights Act,” the landmark Civil Rights-era law that prohibited discrimination in voting on the basis of race.
According to the court, Louisiana’s map was an unconstitutional gerrymander because it took race into account to draw the lines of the new district.
“While the court technically stopped short of overturning this key provision entirely,” the “Deadline: White House” host explained, the decision could lead to decreasing minority representation across all levels of government.
With the ruling, Wallace said “discrimination and chaos” have once again been “unleashed by the nation’s highest court.”
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As she noted, several Republican lawmakers have already used the court’s ruling to call for new maps in their home states, including Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.
With the future of the United States’ multiracial democracy at stake, Wallace urged Americans not to let the Supreme Court decision get lost in the news cycle, which is often dominated by President Donald Trump’s scandal du jour.
“I think that Trump benefits when the news feels fast and furious,” Wallace said. “This is really one of those stories that everyone should sort of sit down, put the phone down, resist the doom-scrolling, and just let it sink in.”
You can watch Wallace’s full analysis in the clip at the top of the page.
Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”