The Supreme Court just handed down a 6-3 ruling in *Louisiana v. Callais* striking down a majority-Black congressional district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Justice Alito wrote the majority opinion. Justice Thomas signed on — and then wrote a concurrence that basically told his colleagues, “Nice start, but you left the job half-finished.”

The most fearless man in Washington strikes again.

Thomas, joined by Gorsuch, argued that the Court should go even further and hold that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act “does not regulate districting at all.” Not reform it. Not narrow it. Rip it out of the redistricting game entirely. He called the Court’s decades-long adventure in race-based redistricting a “disastrous misadventure in voting-rights jurisprudence” — quoting himself from a concurrence he wrote more than THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Thirty years. This man has been saying the same thing since 1994 and he hasn’t budged an inch. That’s not stubbornness — that’s conviction. While the rest of Washington blows with the wind, Thomas plants his flag and waits for the world to catch up.

So what actually happened in this case? Louisiana drew its congressional maps. Democrats and racial advocacy groups sued, arguing that the state was required under the Voting Rights Act to create a second majority-Black district — essentially demanding that the state sort voters by skin color and draw lines accordingly. The Supreme Court looked at that argument and said no. Louisiana had “no compelling interest” in concentrating Black voters into a racial bloc district.

In other words: you can’t gerrymander based on race and then call it “civil rights.”

Democrats have been running this play for years. They take the Voting Rights Act — a law designed to prevent discrimination — and twist it into a map-rigging tool. The strategy is simple: demand that states create “majority-minority” districts packed with Democratic voters, then cry racism if anyone objects. It’s not about protecting minority voting rights. It’s about guaranteeing Democrat seats. And everybody in Washington knows it.

Justice Kagan threw a predictable fit in her dissent, wailing that the decision “renders Section 2 all but a dead letter” and warning that states can now “systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power.” Classic. When Democrats lose the ability to sort Americans by race for political advantage, they call it discrimination. Up is down, left is right, and stopping racial gerrymandering is somehow racist.

(These people have been using the same playbook since 2003 and they still expect us to fall for it.)

But the real headline here is Thomas. The man doesn’t write concurrences — he writes closing arguments for posterity. While Alito’s majority opinion was careful and narrow, Thomas went straight for the jugular. He’s not interested in trimming around the edges. He wants the entire framework of race-based redistricting dismantled, root and branch.

And he’s right. The idea that the government should draw congressional maps based on the racial composition of neighborhoods is insane. It treats American citizens as members of racial voting blocs rather than individual voters. It assumes that Black voters all think alike, all vote alike, and all need to be herded into the same district to have “representation.” That’s not civil rights. That’s patronizing garbage.

Thomas has been making this argument since Bill Clinton was in his first term. He made it when it was unpopular. He made it when the media called him every name in the book. He made it when law professors wrote papers about how wrong he was. And now, three decades later, a majority of the Supreme Court is moving in his direction.

That’s what intellectual courage looks like. Not tweeting hot takes. Not giving speeches to friendly audiences. Writing legal opinions that the entire establishment hates and then waiting — patiently, for decades — until the law catches up.

Democrats should be very nervous right now. This ruling doesn’t just affect Louisiana. It blows a hole in the racial gerrymandering strategy that Democrats have used nationwide to lock in congressional seats. Every “majority-minority” district that was drawn primarily based on race is now legally vulnerable. The maps Democrats spent millions of dollars rigging could start falling like dominoes.

And Clarence Thomas is standing there with the match, telling the Court to burn more.

You absolutely love to see it.