After the Supreme Court struck down the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 decision, Killer Mike once again issued his signature call for “plots, plans, strategies.”
When the Supreme Court struck down the Voting Rights Act this week, Killer Mike wasted no time delivering a message his audience needed to hear immediately.
“Americans, we have work to do this year, both inside and outside the polls. No matter what… plot, plan, strategize, organize and mobilize!” he wrote, reiterating the rallying cry that has been his signature as a citizen since 2020.
The post has already drawn backlash due to his past political conflicts, but the message itself lands exactly where it needs to, AllHipHop reports.
Wednesday’s ruling in Louisiana v. Carle was 6-3 and stripped away much of the power of Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion that dramatically laid out the map of what plaintiffs must prove to challenge racial injustice in court.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent that the decision rendered Article 2 “virtually a dead letter” because states can now disempower black voters as long as they blame partisanship rather than race.
Today at the National Action Network’s Saturday Action Rally at Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem, New York, I made it clear that this week’s Supreme Court decision to chip away at key protections of the Voting Rights Act is not just another ruling, but an immediate loss of safeguards…
— Pastor Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) May 2, 2026
Justice Clarence Thomas, concurring with Neil Gorsuch, went further, writing that he believed Section 2 “simply does not regulate districts,” calling decades of VRA protections a “catastrophically unfortunate event.”
According to CNN, this is the second black judge in the history of the Supreme Court to use his seat to abolish the protections that black Americans have paid for with their blood. When Donald Trump was asked about it in the Oval Office, he said without hesitation: “That’s the ruling I like.”
Pastor Al Sharpton called it “a bullet to the heart of the voting rights movement” and announced that NAN voting teams would be deployed block by block in more than 23 cities ahead of the midterm elections.
“We are only a few generations away from legalizing disenfranchisement,” Sharpton said. “This is not distant history, this is our reality. Faith without works is dead. History will remember where we are at this moment.”
Sen. Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first black senator and a direct product of VRA protections, called it “a slap in the face” to everyone fighting for these rights.
Louisiana has suspended its May 16 House primary to redraw its map to eliminate at least one majority-Black congressional district, and Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee are all moving quickly in the same direction, according to the New York Times.
Analysts predict that Republicans could gain as many as 18 additional House seats by November through the newly enabled gerrymandering method.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has vowed that passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act will be one of the Democrats’ first actions if they take back the majority in November 2026.
