The Supreme Court just made a ruling that took many people by surprise considering the conservative majority of the court:

Yep, our old buddy Brett Kavanaugh, for whom conservatives fought like hell to get on the Supreme Court, defected to the libs and ruled that Alabama's redistricting was racist and unconstitutional.

Roberts, of course, also joined the libs, handing a victory to Democrats and liberal activists.

This could possibly cost Republicans multiple house seats.

Democrats and civil rights activists said the Voting Rights Act required a second heavily Black district in Alabama, a state with seven US congressional seats and a 27% Black population. Republicans and their allies were seeking to give lawmakers more leeway to draw maps without considering the impact on racial minorities.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court's liberals in the majority. Roberts said Alabama was trying to "remake our Section 2 jurisprudence" with its arguments.

"We find Alabama's new approach to Section 2 compelling neither in theory nor in practice," Roberts wrote.

This is a major blow to conservatives who hold a very narrow majority in the US House. This means that seats will certainly be lost in multiple states.

The ACTUAL conservatives on the court dissented from the majority opinion.

Justice Clarence Thomas, the court's most reliable conservative, explained why the ruling was not in keeping with constitutional law.

"The question presented is whether Section 2 of the Act, as amended, requires the state of Alabama to intentionally redraw its longstanding congressional districts so that black voters can control a number of seats roughly proportional to the black share of the state's population," Thomas wrote. "Section 2 demands no such thing, and, if it did, the Constitution would not permit it."

This is a major win for The Left and a major disappointment for conservatives who fought hard to preserve the court.