Page 6 The Sun Bay Paper June 1, 2026 The Truth Is Not a Disaster The United States Supreme Court has released its decision in Louisiana v Callais. To listen to Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, who just argued that a wildly drawn partisan redistricting scheme in Virginia was “fair,” is to hear hysterics lying to whip partisans into a frenzy. A few days after a progressive activist, inflamed by leftwing rhetoric attempted a mass assassination of the president and his cabinet in Washington, perhaps Democrats should rein in their lies. The Supreme Court said, plainly, that states cannot draw legislative districts based on race. Several states cannot draw districts to be predominantly white to preclude Black voters from representation. Several states also cannot draw districts to be predominantly Black to preclude white voters from representation. The Constitution requires a color-blind society. Fifty-eight Black men and women serve in the United States House of Representatives. A majority of them represent districts where white voters outnumber Black voters. The idea that Black Americans cannot get elected to Congress without majority-minority districts is, here in the twenty-first century, nonsense. The same racism that led Democrats to believe Black Americans need affirmative action to get ahead led them to believe Black Americans need racially discriminatory congressional districts to get elected. The data shows otherwise. In the Callais case, Louisiana had drawn partisan congressional districts to protect Republicans. A federal judge determined that, in so doing, Louisiana had denied Black voters the opportunity for a second majority-minority district. The judge ordered the state to specifically draw a district that would most likely elect a Black member of Congress. Louisiana was sued a second time for doing so, and another court found that Louisiana had explicitly drawn a district based on race. The Supreme Court agreed and said that it was unconstitutional. Democrats reacted as if the Supreme Court had just reimposed slavery. For the last several decades, the Supreme Court has demanded that states give up racial discriminatory practices like racial preferences in college admissions and hiring. Now, the same line of logic applies to legislative redistricting. Therein lies the problem. A simple review of Republican states shows their districts are mostly compact, keeping communities of interest together. Democrat states have gerrymandered with legislative districts meandering across whole states to achieve partisan purposes. Democratic policies have pushed their residents to move to Republican led states. Those Democratic states are struggling with both a loss of population and their voters living in urban cores. Their legislative lines must be stretched out from the urban cores to prohibit Republicans from getting elected. Racially gerrymandered districts in Southern states also must be stretched across states and communities of interest to ensure Black politicians get elected. By ending racial gerrymandering, Black politicians can still get elected, but in Southern states, it will be harder for Democrats to get elected. All the problems for the Democratic Party right now come down to power. Their states are losing populations, which is why they support illegal immigration. The Constitution requires counting residents, not just citizens, for purposes of congressional apportionment. Congressional apportionment then determines a state’s Electoral College vote. As Democrat states lose their citizens, who can vote, they must rely on illegal aliens who cannot vote, but whose residency can prop up population numbers for congressional apportionment. Southern states, which have long been required to draw majority-minority districts, no longer have to. That will reduce Democrats in the House of Representatives. Combine that with the loss of population in Democratic states and it will reduce, across the nation, both the number of Democrats in Congress and the Electoral College vote of Democratic states. The truth is irrelevant to Democrat hysteria. They see the loss of their power as an existential crisis. Unfortunately, Democrats have internalized the idea that only they are virtuous and only their use of power is virtuous. Republicans in charge are a threat to democracy, which is why so many on the Left have taken to firing bullets at the right. The Callais decision is common sense and ends racial discrimination. That it hurts Democrats shows how that party has preserved itself through racial politics and how, as times change, that party will be profoundly altered. DAILY EDITORIALS BY: ERICK ERICKSON The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels defeated the Jupiter Hammerheads by a final score of 4-1 on Saturday night at Lee Health Sports Complex. The Mighty Mussels (28-22) won tonight on the back of 11 walks from the Jupiter (28-22) pitching staff. Fort Myers has now taken an astounding 47 free passes in the series, the most they’ve taken in a series with one game still to play. The Mussels’ previous high for walks in a series was 38 in early May against the Tampa Tarpons. Despite leaving 15 runners on base, Fort Myers became the first team in six weeks to take a series from the Hammerheads. Dameury Pena, JP Smith II, and Henry Kusiak each turned in impressive offensive nights. Pena walked three times and had two hits, Smith had three hits and a walk, while Kusiak hit a home run and reached base four times. Fort Myers sent Matthew Dalquist (1-2) to the mound to make his eighth start of the season. Dalquist allowed two hits but held Jupiter off the scoreboard in the first. The Mighty Mussels offense got rolling against Walin Castillo (1-3) in the second inning. The first three men reached, with Smith and Kusiak singling followed by a walk from Jayson Bass. Two batters later, Irvin Nunez drove Smith in on a sacrifice fly to give Fort Myers the early lead at 1-0. Dalquist was very good across his five innings, throwing 73% strikes and fanning three in a scoreless outing. He retired 14 of the final 16 men he faced, including eight in a row from the first to the third inning. It was his third time completing five innings this season and he has gone at least four innings in each of his eight starts. In the bottom of the fifth, Smith singled with one out to set the table for Kusiak, who belted his first affiliated home run to extend the lead. The ball left the bat at 100.8 mph and travelled 398 feet over the Minnesota Twins retired number placards in left-center field. The Mighty Mussels led 3-0 after five innings. Jupiter struck back in the sixth inning facing new Mussel arm Dylan Questad. Following back-to-back walks to begin the inning, PJ Morlando drove in the Hammerheads first run of the game on an RBI groundout. That made the score 3-1 Fort Myers. Questad gave way to Jonathan Stevens in the seventh inning, who worked around a leadoff single to preserve the two-run lead. In the bottom half, the Mussels used more small ball to produce runs. Fort Myers loaded the bases with two walks and a single, then Ryan Sprock brought home a run on a sac fly to make it 4-1. Jake Murray (S1) came in with two on and two out in the eighth inning to secure a key strikeout of Andrew Salas, who represented the tying run. Murray locked down the game in the ninth, working around a one-out walk by striking out the final two hitters to complete the win. The series concludes on Sunday, May 31. Fort Myers will send Reed Moring (1.42) to the mound as the Hammerheads counter with Manuel Genao (3.96) . First pitch is scheduled for 12:05 p.m. Coverage will begin at 11:20 a.m. as the Mighty Mussels Baseball Network will air a special pregame on-field ceremony honoring six Gold Star families for a Military Tribute. Trio of Mussels Turn in Big Nights; Fort Myers Clinches Series against Jupiter
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