CNN Freaks Out That SCOTUS Might Do Away With Race-Based Districts

As the Supreme Court gathered to determine the fate of race-based congressional districts, the cast of CNN’s Wednesday edition of Inside Politics gathered for its corresponding freak-out session. Most notably, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Washington Bureau Chief Tia Mitchell tried to claim that such districts are still necessary because black voters are still being disenfranchised by Republicans.

Host Dana Bash set Mitchell up by declaring, “I mean, there's so many critical angles to this, and the way that the House of Representatives would look would be different in terms of numbers, but also the way it would look in terms of race and representation would be very, very different. And Tia, David mentioned Chief Justice Roberts, if you go back to 2007, and one of the opinions that he wrote, he said, 'The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating based on race.’”

She then scoffed, “I mean, that is a lovely thought. And the question before the Court is whether the United States of America is there right now.”

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