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The Supreme Court’s reargument this week in Louisiana v. Callais produced a jaw-dropping moment when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked the Americans with Disabilities Act as an analogy for racial vote dilution, suggesting that minorities who lack equal political access are, in effect, “disabled.” The exchange came during heated questioning over whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act still justifies race-conscious districting, and it left many Americans wondering how a sitting justice could make such a tone-deaf comparison in the middle of the nation’s highest court.
You heard it plainly in the audio: “They don’t have equal access to the voting system. They’re disabled,” Justice Jackson said, framing systemic vote dilution in terms of physical barriers under the ADA. That blunt phrasing was widely circulated and replayed across conservative outlets and social media, and it crystallized a broader concern about how modern progressivism treats minority citizens as perpetual victims rather than equal participants in our republic.
For patriotic conservatives, the remark felt less like legal reasoning and more like identity politics on parade — a pundit’s line masquerading as jurisprudence. Comparing Black voters to people with disabilities not only trivializes real disabilities but also reinforces a dangerous narrative that minorities cannot succeed without government-engineered preferences. This is the same victimhood-driven mindset that produces quotas, racial carve-outs, and endless litigation instead of promoting opportunity and individual dignity.
Beyond the insult, the stakes are enormous: the Court is weighing whether to narrow or even cripple Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and the conservative majority appeared ready to rein in race-based remedies that have been used for decades to draw majority-minority districts. A decision curtailing Section 2 could reshape redistricting nationwide and end the practice of engineering districts by race — a development Democrats will loudly call an attack on civil rights even as it restores constitutional colorblindness to elections.
This episode lays bare a larger philosophical clash: do we strengthen the country by treating Americans as citizens with equal rights under the law, or do we keep carving everyone into grievance categories and state-sponsored dependency? Justice Jackson’s analogy proves the left prefers the latter — substituting compassion for competence and victim labels for personal responsibility. Conservatives must call this what it is: a patronizing worldview that will only deepen divisions and weaken the institutions that bind us together.
Patriots should respond with clarity and conviction, defending a vision of America that prizes equal opportunity over engineered outcomes. Fight for fair maps, transparent laws, and a colorblind approach that lifts people up without confining them to victimhood forever. Our republic works when citizens stand as equals, not as wards of the court, and it’s time to remind Washington of that timeless truth.
