State Auditor Shad White and other Republican politicians gleefully boasted on social media that last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Louisiana vs. Callais could lead to the redrawing of Mississippi’s four U.S. House districts to eliminate the seat long held by Rep. Bennie Thompson.

Thompson, the state’s only Black member of Congress and only Democrat, is often the target of disdain for Mississippi Republicans. That disdain has intensified since Thompson led the congressional investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the nation’s Capitol and the attempt to stop a legal transfer of federal executive power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

Bobby Harrison is the editor of Mississippi Today Ideas. This column was produced by Mississippi Today, a nonprofit news organization that covers state government, public policy, politics and culture. 

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