Hakeem Jeffries and his fellow Democrats were counting on a blue wave this November.

But then the bottom fell out.

And it’s all because the Supreme Court just delivered Hakeem Jeffries a defeat he had to buckle up for.

President Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push to redraw fair maps ahead of the midterms received another boost when the Supreme Court overturned a lower court order blocking Alabama’s new Congressional map that eliminated one Democrat-held seat because it being an illegal racial gerrymander.

Justice Department Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon praised the ruling.

“HUGE!!! @CivilRights co-authored the amicus brief of the United States supporting this outcome. Proud to do our part to stand up for equal rights and votes for ALL Americans!” Dhillon wrote.

In an unsigned ruling, the justices ruled that the lower court had ignored the recent Callais opinion, where the court struck down gerrymanders that discriminated on the basis of race.

“Moreover, the majority continued, the lower court had not heeded the Supreme Court’s ruling in Callais. That court, the majority stressed, had struck down the 2023 map even though the map that the challengers had offered as an alternative did not fare as well in achieving the state’s goals of keeping residents of the Gulf Coast communities together and avoiding contests between incumbents. The lower court also “failed to follow our instruction in Callais that the mere fact that voters of different races vote for different parties is not relevant to proving racially polarized voting patterns,” SCOTUS blog reported.

For decades, Democrats illegally exploited the Voting Rights Act to steal as many as 20 seats in red states by drawing unconstitutional Congressional Districts based on race.

In this ruling, the justices also chided the lower court for trying to rewrite the election rules too close to an election.

“We have repeatedly cautioned that lower federal courts should not ‘alter the election rules on the eve of an election,’” the opinion read. “Here, the District Court interposed itself into Alabama’s ongoing efforts to conduct its imminent 2026 congressional elections under maps that its elected representatives selected. The view that conducting the elections under court-imposed maps would be more convenient for the State was not a valid justification for that intervention.” “While federal courts should not impose changes close to an election,” the court acknowledged, “States are free to decide for themselves whether last-minute changes to an election are in their best interests.” 

Red states like Alabama, being able to draw new maps that eliminate illegal racial gerrymanders and stolen Democrat seats, created a massive firewall for the GOP to blunt the blue wave every Democrat and liberal media pundit expected to wash across the country in November.

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