The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a redistricting fight in Louisiana, narrowing how the Voting Rights Act can be used to challenge redistricting campaigns in states that almost all at this point have “majority black” districts where Democrats almost always win.
And it’s rippling through the states with governors and lawmakers alike concerned about continuing a scheme that the court has, in fact, ruled unconstitutional.
One lawmaker, however, is going the other way, insisting that any move to make redistricting agendas align with constitutional principles like another “Civil War.”
Nothing to see here, folks. Just the former January 6 Chairman – Rep. Bennie Thompson – calling for an insurrection and second Civil War if Mississippi redraws him out of an unconstitutional congressional district. pic.twitter.com/03ci8eN5Zf
— Caroline Wren (@CarolineWren) May 6, 2026
Rep. Bennie Thompson on redistricting: “This is equivalent to a second civil war … We’re going to have to resist with every fiber in our body.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 6, 2026
It is Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, who made the comment.
Following the Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana’s districts, other states immediately began to review what they have, and whether their districts need to change to be constitutional.
Florida, Alabama and Tennessee are just two of the states launching into action.
Thompson claimed, “All the Republicans in the South have been waiting on was for this decision. And what we have now, obviously, is an execution of what they wanted to do all along.”
Thompson claimed he will fight the changes “with every fiber in our bodies.”
He said this is the equivalent of a “second Civil War.”
“Because it’s not just members of Congress, we’re talking about state legislatures, we’re talking about commissions, we’re talking about city councils…” he said.
