Clarence Thomas Alabama Redistricting Case Sends Internet Into a Time Loop as Conservatives Suddenly Discover They Love Racial Gerrymandering
In a plot twist that has historians reaching for their smelling salts, the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the Alabama redistricting case has triggered an ironic epidemic of selective amnesia. Justice Clarence Thomas, the man who once argued the Constitution is colorblind, has now become the unlikely mascot for a map that packs Black voters into a single district—proving that in the game of redistricting, the only consistent principle is “whatever helps my team win.” The internet is currently split between legal scholars pointing out the doctrinal gymnastics and comedians pointing out that we’ve somehow looped back to the 1960s, but this time with better lighting and worse takes.