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The Republican-controlled Georgia General Assembly didn\u2019t merely abandon its plans for redrawing racially-gerrymandered congressional districts, it did so to the applause of radical leftists. And the Peach State RINOs basked in the far-left approbation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Marshall Yates, strategic counsel for the Oversight Project\u2019s Redistricting and Election Protection for American Integrity and Representation (REPAIR) Initiative, said the legislature ought to be ashamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Georgia Speaker of the House Jon Burns, a Newington Republican, looked pretty shameless in announcing on Wednesday that House Republicans would not be taking up congressional or legislative redistricting maps for 2028 during the General Assembly\u2019s special session. He smiled and nodded as Democrats holding \u201cHands Off Georgia\u201d signs cheered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, well, thank you for the ovation,\u201d Burns said, looking quite pleased with the applause and himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The Georgia Way\u2019<\/h2>\n

Effectively defying the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in that effectively put an end to affirmative action districts, Republican lawmakers held a well-staged press conference to tell Georgians they had no time to take up map redrawing. They did so despite Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s proclamation last month convening the special session for the explicit purpose of redrawing Georgia\u2019s unconstitutional majority minority districts.<\/p>\n

Burns told his new leftist friends that House Republicans \u201cknew it was not the right path forward for our state at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that it is important to do things the Georgia way \u2014 responsibly, transparently, and with ample opportunity for public input,\u201d the speaker said at the Capitol event surrounded by his Republican colleagues. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The decision, it appears, was more of a fearful reaction than a noble gesture, which was performative and ignoble in a republic still striving to end discrimination. Some Georgia Republicans feared redistricting in an election year could backfire, driving Democrat turnout in competitive races, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, Burns and crew apparently don\u2019t feel an urgent need to fix long-standing discrimination in Georgia\u2019s political maps. That would seem to be at odds with the high court\u2019s majority opinion, written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito, that noted \u201clower courts have sometimes applied this Court\u2019s \u00a72 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Inaction is not a Defense, it\u2019s Pathetic\u2019<\/h2>\n

The REPAIR Initiative is urging Georgia\u2019s legislative leadership to reverse course and do the necessary work of redistricting in the special session or commit to do so in a near-term special session.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Georgia General Assembly ought to be ashamed. Their cowardice will go down as one of the biggest blunders following the Callais<\/em> decision,\u201d Yates said in an exclusive statement to The Federalist. \u201cGeorgia lawmakers were called to Atlanta for exactly this purpose, but instead they immediately surrendered to the radical racial agitators.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yates previously told The Federalist that the REPAIR initiative is an \u201call-of-the-above approach\u201d to fighting to ensure states \u2014 blue and red \u2014 are no longer drawing affirmative action maps tainted with the Voter Registration Act\u2019s stain of discrimination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That is exactly what the U.S. Supreme Court ordered in Louisiana v. Callais<\/em>. The decision specifically dealt with Louisiana\u2019s court-ordered creation of a second majority-black congressional district. That lower court found that Louisiana\u2019s original congressional map, which only contained one majority black district, more than likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n

Despite their Capitol clapping, Democrats quickly shrugged off the Republicans\u2019 ingratiating act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

House Minority Leader Carolyn Hugley and Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones II in a joint statement called any effort to get rid of the long-standing affirmative action districts \u201cracist\u201d and \u201crigged.\u201d They complimented leftist organizations for \u201cshowing up and showing out\u201d enough to make Georgia House Republicans cower and cave.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFight now, vote Republicans out in November, and stop these racist, rigged maps for good,\u201d the lawmakers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other red states \u2014 Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee \u2014 are redrawing their congressional maps in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s much more work to be done.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yates estimates there are somewhere north of 100 race-driven districts across the country. California appears to have more than a dozen alone \u2014 squeezed together as part of the state\u2019s mid-decade map manipulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cInaction is not a defense, it\u2019s pathetic. By refusing to fix Georgia\u2019s congressional districts, the Georgia General Assembly has surrendered to the radical racial activists who benefit from the status quo,\u201d Yates said.\u00a0\u201cSurrendering to the left doesn\u2019t make the redistricting problem go away, it only empowers Hakeem Jeffries, Marc Elias, and Eric Holder.\u201d<\/p>\n

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