{"id":1077,"date":"2026-05-15T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:39:52","slug":"voting-rights-act-ruling-is-red-meat-to-republicans-in-south-says-black-lawmaker-targeted-by-gerrymander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Voting Rights Act ruling is \u2018red meat\u2019 to Republicans in south, says Black lawmaker targeted by gerrymander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi politicians are threatening to redraw the district of Bennie Thompson, the state\u2019s lone Democrat in Congress<\/p>\n<p>The supreme court decision that effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA) \u201cwas red meat to the Republican legislators of the south\u201d the US House representative Bennie Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative lawmakers in Mississippi, where Thompson is both the state\u2019s lone Black and only Democratic congressional representative, have used the opportunity to explicitly target him, threatening to redraw the second congressional district, that he represents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/bennie-thompson-voting-rights-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi politicians are threatening to redraw the district of Bennie Thompson, the state\u2019s lone Democrat in Congress The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}