Epoch Times - Will SCOTUS End Race-Based Redistricting? | Governor Jeff Landry
Aired: 2025-10-17
Duration: 02:11


=== Chief's Quest for Colorblind Constitution (02:10) ===

[00:00:00]  The justices spent two and a half hours yesterday peppering the lawyers on that.
[00:00:08]  That's a long time for those justices to spend on a case.
[00:00:12]  They could have decided this case in the summer.
[00:00:14]  They did not.
[00:00:15]  They chose to put it back on the docket.
[00:00:19]  It's not something that they do often.
[00:00:21]  We see them only doing that when they're poised to make a big change at the court.
[00:00:27]  This case is about fairness.
[00:00:30]  This case is about equal protection.
[00:00:32]  This case is about a colorblind constitution.
[00:00:37]  And I think the chief understands that.
[00:00:39]  I think for 20 years, the chief has been trying to untangle the court out of redistricting.
[00:00:46]  And yet, instead of that, he's placed the court deeper into redistricting at each and every one of the cases that the court has decided.
[00:00:56]  So it's like this web.
[00:00:58]  They keep trying to get out of the web.
[00:01:00]  And every time they took a case, they only ended up further entangled.
[00:01:04]  This is the case that could entangle it.
[00:01:06]  Justice Roberts had a quote that I've been using throughout many interviews many years ago on a redistricting case.
[00:01:15]  And he said, the best way to stop discriminating based upon race is to stop discriminating based upon race.
[00:01:23]  And so that's the trick bag that the court has consistently placed themselves in.
[00:01:27]  And each time Roberts has tried to maneuver the court away from redistricting cases, it's only further entangled them in it.
[00:01:37]  And so I think that the chief is really looking for an opportunity to free the court's docket of these redistricting cases because I believe that he believes what I believe in that the equal protection clause of the Constitution is a powerful clause and that the Constitution is a colorblind constitution today.
[00:01:58]  And so I think that this case is important to the chief and that's why you saw him take a more measured approach.
[00:02:08]  I think he knows where he wants to land this case.