{"id":2615854,"date":"2026-06-18T19:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-redistricting-initiative-calls-on-pathetic-georgia-gop-to-redraw-affirmative-action-map\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:35:24","slug":"exclusive-redistricting-initiative-calls-on-pathetic-georgia-gop-to-redraw-affirmative-action-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-redistricting-initiative-calls-on-pathetic-georgia-gop-to-redraw-affirmative-action-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Maps Initiative Tells &#8216;Pathetic&#8217; GOP To Do Their Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-redistricting-initiative-calls-on-pathetic-georgia-gop-to-redraw-affirmative-action-map%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2615854&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Georgia&#8217;s Republican-controlled legislature decided not to pursue redistricting for the 2028 elections, despite a court ruling that emphasized the importance of addressing racial gerrymandering in districts. This decision was met with criticism from initiatives like REPAIR and some Republican voices who argue the move was cowardly and neglects the state&#8217;s need to reform discriminatory maps. House Speaker Jon Burns claimed the delay was in the &#8220;Georgia way&#8221; of doing things responsibly, but critics see it as a fearful reaction motivated by electoral concerns, notably the potential for increased Democratic turnout. The decision contradicts the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in Louisiana v.callais, which aimed to prevent race-based district drawing under the Voting Rights Act. Democrats dismissed the Republican stance as racially motivated, calling for voters to replace them in upcoming elections. While other states like Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee are actively redrawing their maps in accordance with the court, Georgia&#8217;s inaction is seen as surrendering to racial activists and maintaining the status quo of discriminatory districts, which critics argue only benefits political and racial interests rather than justice or fair portrayal.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Republican-controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgia General Assembly <\/a>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. <\/p>\n<p>Marshall Yates, strategic counsel for the Oversight Project\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/05\/new-initiative-takes-maximum-warfare-to-dems-racist-congressional-districts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Redistricting and Election Protection for American Integrity and Representation (REPAIR)<\/a> Initiative, said the legislature ought to be ashamed. <\/p>\n<p>Georgia Speaker of the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.ga.gov\/Representatives\/en-US\/member.aspx?Member=73&#038;Session=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jon Burns,<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, well, thank you for the ovation,\u201d Burns said, looking quite pleased with the applause and himself. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p>\u2014 Marshall Yates (@MarshallYates_) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarshallYates_\/status\/2067400686787072298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018The Georgia Way\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Effectively defying the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/24-109_21o3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em><\/a>  that effectively put an end to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/12\/supreme-court-clears-way-for-alabama-to-scrap-affirmative-action-districts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affirmative action districts<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiarecorder.com\/2026\/05\/13\/kemp-calls-june-special-session-to-address-redistricting-ballot-qr-codes-in-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proclamation<\/a> last month convening the special session for the explicit purpose of redrawing Georgia\u2019s unconstitutional majority minority districts.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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.  <\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/georgia-redistricting-push-falters-as-gop-divisions-grow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>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<h2>\u2018Inaction is not a Defense, it\u2019s Pathetic\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Georgia General Assembly ought to be ashamed. Their cowardice will go down as one of the biggest blunders following the <em>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<p>Yates previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/05\/new-initiative-takes-maximum-warfare-to-dems-racist-congressional-districts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >longer drawing affirmative action maps tainted<\/a> with the Voter Registration Act\u2019s stain of discrimination. <\/p>\n<p>That is exactly what the U.S. Supreme Court ordered in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/29\/supreme-court-smacks-down-rampant-race-based-gerrymandering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Louisiana v. Callais<\/em><\/a>. The decision specifically dealt with Louisiana\u2019s court-ordered creation of a second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-barone-in-systemically-racist-america-lots-of-whites-vote-for-blacks\/\" title=\"Michael Barone: In \u201cSystemically Racist\u201d America, Lots of Whites Vote for Blacks\">majority-black congressional district<\/a>. That lower court found that Louisiana\u2019s original congressional map, which only contained one majority black district, more than likely violated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/section-2-voting-rights-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their Capitol clapping, Democrats quickly shrugged off the Republicans\u2019 ingratiating act. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFight now, vote Republicans out in November, and stop these racist, rigged maps for good,\u201d the lawmakers said. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 Today, the people won. But the fight\u2019s not over. <\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Jones II and House Minority Leader Hugley released the following statement on the attempted redistricting: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans thought they could get away with drawing racist, rigged maps without a fight.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N4MKbxIpBo\">pic.twitter.com\/N4MKbxIpBo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Georgia Senate Democrats (@GASenateDems) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GASenateDems\/status\/2067305940785721742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Other red states \u2014 Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee \u2014 are redrawing their congressional maps in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s much more work to be done. <\/p>\n<p>Yates estimates there are somewhere north of 100 race-driven districts across the country. California appears to have more than a dozen alone \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25A839\/392124\/20260120124941071_20260120_SCOTUS_Emergency_App_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hispanic majority-minority districts<\/a> squeezed together as part of the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-initiative-takes-maximum-warfare-to-dems-racist-congressional-districts\/\" title=\"... Takes &#039;Maximum Warfare&#039; To Dems&#039; Racist House ...\">mid-decade map manipulation<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\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<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia GOP abandons redistricting amid leftist applause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2615856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-4.40.52-PM-1024x577.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[6203,27584,40146],"class_list":["post-2615854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-gop","tag-maps","tag-political-activism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-18-at-4.40.52-PM-1024x577.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615858,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615854\/revisions\/2615858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2615856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}