Record #3985
Following the Supreme Court ruling gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Republican-controlled state legislatures will draw new congressional maps that dilute Black-majority districts ahead of the 2028 elections, defending them as political rather than racial gerrymanders
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Occurrence 1 of 1 · source record #3985 MeidasTouch · Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 4/30/2026
Original quotebut in 2028 we're now going to see all of these republican states or these state legislatures they're no longer going to feel constrained by section two and they're going to do racist maps and so and they're just going to say it was political gerrymander
Quote begins at 51:50
Prediction time2026-04-30
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Episode published2026-04-30
FirmnessFirm
TopicElections
Resolve by2028-11-07
Boldness70 · Bold
How the call settles
Multiple Republican-controlled states enact new congressional maps before the 2028 elections that eliminate or dilute majority-Black districts while citing political rather than racial motives
Our reasoning
Pending. It will be judged only by this stored rule: Multiple Republican-controlled states enact new congressional maps before the 2028 elections that eliminate or dilute majority-Black districts while citing political rather than racial motives Deadline or event: 2028-11-07.