Democrats Worry Over Redistricting Setbacks

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is escalating his rhetoric as Democrats reel from a series of redistricting setbacks, accusing the Supreme Court of unleashing the “ghosts of the Confederacy” after recent rulings weakened Democrats’ efforts to preserve race-based congressional maps. Speaking on Wednesday, Jeffries painted the high court’s decision as an existential threat to ...