Top Dem Whose District Is Going Away Rips Supreme Court

“I was very disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision,” Thompson told WAPT.

GOP Gov. Tate Reeves and Republican lawmakers in Mississippi are preparing to redraw congressional, state legislative, and state Supreme Court district lines ahead of the 2027 election cycle.

Thompson claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling weakens voter protections by giving state legislatures broader authority to redraw political maps without the stricter standards previously associated with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 regarding racial considerations in redistricting.

Backers of the ruling have argued that drawing congressional districts based on race actually weakened representation because doing so gave outsized political power to one ethnic group over others.