EPISODE · Apr 20, 2026 · 5 MIN
Supreme Court judgements are interesting. Race-based Districts
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
In the second segment of hour three, Charlie James discussed the legal and political complexities surrounding recent Supreme Court rulings on race-based districts. He specifically highlighted the shifting judicial standards for redistricting, drawing parallels between the controversial Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP decision and ongoing challenges in states like Louisiana and Texas. James argued that these rulings, which prioritize a "presumption of legislative good faith," are fundamentally reshaping the 2026 electoral map by making it harder to prove racial gerrymandering when partisan interests are also at play.
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00:00 Supreme Court things are kind of interesting. They really are. um You have to have five judges giving the majority opinion. Then you have to have what is called the dissenting opinion. All right? Now dissenting opinion, that's not legally binding in any way. They don't change the outcome. 00:27 But what the liberal judges are doing, there's a bill, not a bill, sorry. There was a case in the Supreme Court and it talked about redistricting. And it talked about doing away with race-based districts, just like Jim Clyburn's district, all right? I didn't even know that was a thing. 00:55 that you can just gerrymander a district based on race. Or, and this is what really shocked me, language. 01:06 you could gerrymander your own district. This is no joke. If you've got a, let's say there's a 01:16 I don't know, an area in Greenville, no, an area in South Carolina and they just like 95 % of the people there spoke Hispanic. You could come in and redistrict and carve out that district just around the boundary where those people just spoke Hispanic. That's literally a thing they get and they do it. They do it a lot. 01:44 So we know about race-based districts. I was kind of surprised at the language-based districts. So now the Supreme Court is getting ready to do away or to say, no, no, that's not right. You can't do that. And that's going to cause a lot of districts like Jim Clyburn's to be redistricted. Hopefully, our state legislature will do that. They could have done that. But I believe Henry McMaster said something to the effect of like, 02:12 He didn't see the point of it. Oh, oh, you mean doing away with a Democrat vote in Congress? You don't see the point in that Henry Henry disaster? 02:23 That's exactly what you've been, truly. So now you've got that Supreme Court decision and they're getting ready to release that decision. But there's a little thing called the dissent here. And that's where the people that don't agree with the decision, they write their paper on the dissent. 02:46 It doesn't have to be there. The descent doesn't have to be there. That's completely optional. You can ride a descent, but you're not required to. Sometimes some aren't written. 03:01 But in this case, there is a dissent. And these people on the left 03:09 know, Kagan, Sotomayor, Katanji Brown Jackson, they're slow walking this dissent paper. And I mean they're slow walking it so that states aren't going to have time to redistrict. Now, here's the thing, here's the thing, this isn't the first time they've done this. No, it is not the first time they've done this. Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor 03:38 Remember the Dobbs decision? Remember that? 03:44 They slow-walked that dissent for months delaying that decision. Now the funny thing is about Sotomayor and Kagan, Lindsey Graham is responsible for them being on the Supreme Court. 04:07 Lindsey Graham approved them for the Supreme Court and they have been nothing but a disaster for us ever since. 04:16 That's what our state senator did. 04:21 And that has come back to bite us many, many times. 04:26 many times. Folks, he's got to go. I usually don't speak out in the primaries. I don't endorse all that much. But Lindsey Graham, he's got to go. Period. I don't care. 04:46 And I'll say this again, if he wins this primary, Lindsey Graham will no longer have a need for Donald Trump. 04:59 He will no longer need Donald Trump. And he will turn on Donald Trump. Mark my words. 05:09 I don't even think we'll make it to the general election before Lindsey Graham turns on Donald Trump. You watch, it's going to happen. Going to happen. 05:24 Want you to make sure you say a prayer for that deputy that was involved in that shooting over on 85 near Anderson this afternoon. He was airlifted to the hospital. We don't have any information right now. Hopefully Stacy Bartrow will have more on that situation coming up. It was a big mess. I know a lot of people are still out there ...
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