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这项以6票赞成、3票反对的裁决认定路易斯安那州国会选区划分方案为非法种族选区划分舞弊，该方案旨在打造一个非裔占多数的国会选区
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发布于2026年4月30日美国东部时间下午3:36
民主党人谴责最高法院削弱《选举权法案》关键条款的裁决
福克斯新闻首席法律记者香农·布里姆在《特别报道》中报道了最高法院限制在国会选区重划中使用种族因素的裁决。
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前总统巴拉克·奥巴马因谴责最高法院针对路易斯安那州基于种族的选区重划的新裁决而遭到抨击，而就在几天前，他还为弗吉尼亚州的一项竞选活动投放广告，旨在将该州的选区划分格局转变为民主党以10比1占据优势的局面。
最高法院以6票对3票否决了路易斯安那州2024年中期改选前的选区重划方案，该方案催生了一个蜿蜒曲折的国会选区，由巴吞鲁日的众议员克利奥·菲尔兹代表，最高法院称这是“非法”的种族选区划分舞弊。而奥巴马则辩称，该裁决削弱了《选举权法案》中禁止基于种族歧视的条款。
“今天最高法院的裁决实际上掏空了《选举权法案》的一个关键支柱，让州立法机构可以自由地通过选区划分舞弊系统地削弱、弱化少数族裔的投票权——只要他们以‘党派立场’而非明确的‘种族偏见’为幌子行事，”奥巴马说道。
“除非是在弗吉尼亚州。在那种情况下，拥有10比1的选区划分优势简直太棒了，”布什政府白宫新闻秘书阿里·弗莱舍在X平台上发文反驳道。
斯潘伯格在选区重划公投最后几小时面临“挂羊头卖狗肉”的反弹
2025年11月1日，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在纽瓦克为新泽西州州长候选人、民主党众议员米基·谢里尔竞选造势。（亚当·格雷/彭博社）
弗莱舍还得到了前北卡罗来纳州国会议员、前特朗普助手马克·梅多斯的支持，梅多斯对奥巴马表示，他的批评“有失身份”。
前国土安全部助理部长崔西·麦克劳林也发表了看法，她对这位前总统说道：“在弗吉尼亚州，剥夺数百万选民的投票权，迫使45%的弗吉尼亚人由一个国会选区代表，而55%的人由10个选区代表，如今这居然是‘捍卫民主’。”
“这就是‘公平’？简直是个笑话。”
奥巴马随后抨击了最高法院当前的组成及其保守派多数席位，称这起案件的裁决是“放弃其在确保平等参与民主、保护少数群体权利免受多数派越权行为侵害方面的重要作用”的又一例证。
其他批评人士指出，奥巴马对自己家乡州的选区划分舞弊方案一直保持沉默，该方案包含多个将芝加哥不同社区和郊区连接起来的锯齿状选区，而其他民主党票仓则在该州内部形成蜿蜒选区，将尚佩恩、斯普林菲尔德和莫林等城市与其他民主党地区连接起来。
弗吉尼亚州的选区重划方案在上周的一场特别选举中以微弱优势获得选民批准，弗吉尼亚州最高法院允许这场选举在关于中期改选前仓促推进选区重划的法律纠纷中照常举行。（弗吉尼亚州立法信息系统）
其他批评人士指出，新英格兰地区加上夏威夷州的所有国会选区都由民主党掌控——他们援引数据称，这些州的共和党选民比例在32%至48%之间，但这些选民在华盛顿都没有立场一致的代表。
这位美国第44任总统还补充说，类似这样的挫折是可以克服的，他呼吁尊重“民主理想”的美国人以创纪录的票数投票，以抵消法院裁决带来的任何选举变化。
在对《选举权法案》第二条的解读中，大法官塞缪尔·阿利托表示，当“得到正确理解时，[该条款]不会施加与宪法相悖的责任，也不应该让路易斯安那州为其2022年的选区划分方案承担责任”。
就在几天前，奥巴马还在弗吉尼亚州一场主要由民主党主导的“投赞成票”运动中处于核心位置，弗吉尼亚州的民主党立法多数派和州长阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格支持一项选民公投，以实施他们自己的中期改选前选区重划方案，该方案将在至少未来四年内惠及本党。
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新批准的选区重划方案将把弗吉尼亚州当前民主党6比5的国会席位优势转变为大概率的10比1分裂格局，具体方式是将农村选区重新划分，纳入华盛顿特区郊区或里士满-彼得斯堡都会区。包括奥巴马在内的支持者称，此举有必要在全国层面恢复公平。
“通过投赞成票，你有机会做一件重要的事，不仅是为了弗吉尼亚州，也是为了我们整个国家。通过投赞成票，你可以反击共和党人试图在中期选举中为自己谋取不公平优势的行为。”
奥巴马在一则支持“投赞成票”的广告中声称，支持者可以“扭转竞争格局”。
卡维尔和共同主持人哀叹特朗普引发选区重划战，让两党都显得愤世嫉俗
2024年1月8日，时任路易斯安那州州参议员的克利奥·菲尔兹在路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日州议会宣誓就职仪式上发言。（杰拉尔德·赫伯特/美联社）
尽管这主要是民主党关注的问题，而且路易斯安那州和阿拉巴马州新划分的选区都对民主党有利，但弗吉尼亚州的“投赞成票”运动也得到了少数非民主党人士的支持，例如反对特朗普的前伊利诺伊州共和党众议员亚当·金辛格。
和路易斯安那州的方案一样，弗吉尼亚州的计划也面临着相互对立的诉讼，包括最近西部山区塔泽韦尔县的一名巡回法官下令暂停对“投赞成票”结果的认证，而州最高法院正在审理一起关于公投立法程序和合法性的案件。
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菲尔兹在一份声明中表示，周三的最高法院裁决“摧毁”了数十年来的既定法律，并非对《选举权法案》的“中立解读”。
“今天的多数派法官重新启用了这一标准——其实际效果是让少数族裔社区更难挑战削弱其政治话语权的选区重划方案，”菲尔兹说道。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系奥巴马征求对这些批评的置评。
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查尔斯·克赖茨是福克斯新闻数字频道的记者。
他于2013年加入福克斯新闻，担任撰稿人和制作助理。
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Obama ripped for SCOTUS hot take after support for Virginia ‘gerrymander’
2026-04-30T15:36:45-04:00 / Fox News
The 6-3 decision declared Louisiana’s congressional map an illegal racial gerrymander favoring a majority-Black district
By Charles Creitz
Fox News
Published April 30, 2026 3:36pm EDT
Democrats decry Supreme Court ruling that rolls back key provision of voting rights act
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Former President Barack Obama was lambasted for rebuking a new Supreme Court ruling against race-based redistricting in Louisiana, just days after cutting ads for a Virginia effort to transform that state’s map into a 10-1 Democratic-advantaged landscape.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against Louisiana’s 2024 mid-decade redistricting that produced a serpentine district represented by Rep. Cleo Fields of Baton Rouge, calling it an “illegal” racial gerrymander, while Obama argued the decision weakened a Voting Rights Act provision prohibiting race-based discrimination.
“Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities — so long as they do it under the guise of ‘partisanship’ rather than explicit ‘racial bias’,” Obama said.
“Unless it’s Virginia. In that case, it’s great to have a 10-1 gerrymander,” retorted Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a post on X.
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Former President Barack Obama campaigns for Rep. Mikie Sherrill, Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor, in Newark on Nov. 1, 2025.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg)
Fleischer was joined by former North Carolina Congressman and ex-Trump aide Mark Meadows, who addressed Obama to say his rebuke was “beneath you.”
Former DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin also weighed in, remarking that to the former president, “disenfranchising millions of voters and forcing 45% of Virginians to be represented by one congressional district and 55% represented by 10 is now ‘standing up for Democracy.’”
“Is that ‘equity’? What a farce.”
Obama went on to slam the current makeup of the Supreme Court and its conservative majority, saying their decision in the case is another example of “abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.”
Other critics noted Obama has been mum on his own home state’s gerrymandered map, which features several zigzagging districts connecting disparate neighborhoods and suburbs of Chicago, while other Democratic strongholds form serpentine districts around the interior of the state to connect cities like Champaign, Springfield and Moline with other Democratic areas.
The Virginia redistricting map was approved narrowly by voters late week in a special election that the Virginia Supreme Court allowed to be held amid a legal fight over the ‘ramming’ through of mid-decade redistricting.(Virginia Legislative Information System)
Other critics noted how Democrats control every congressional district in New England plus Hawaii — citing reported figures that all of those states have Republican populations between 32% and 48% but none of those voters have like-minded representation in Washington.
The 44th president added that setbacks like that can be overcome, calling on Americans who respect “democratic ideals” to vote in record numbers to outweigh any electoral changes brought on by the court’s decision.
In his own reading of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Sam Alito said that when “correctly understood, [it] does not impose liability at odds with the Constitution, and it should not have imposed liability on Louisiana for its 2022 map.”
Just days earlier, Obama was front and center in the largely Democratic-led “Vote Yes” campaign in Virginia, where the commonwealth’s Democratic legislative majority and Gov. Abigail Spanberger backed a voter referendum to implement their own mid-decade redistricting that would favor their party for at least the next four years.
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The approved map would transform Virginia’s 6-5 Democratic congressional majority into a likely 10-1 split by redrawing rural districts to include Washington, D.C., suburbs or the Richmond-Petersburg metro area, which proponents like Obama said is needed to restore fairness on a national level.
“By voting yes, you have a chance to do something important, not just for the commonwealth but for our entire country. By voting yes, you can push back on the Republicans trying to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms.”
Obama claimed in a pro-Yes ad that supporters could “level the playing field.”
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Then-Louisiana State Sen. Cleo Fields speaks during the swearing in of the state Legislature in Baton Rouge, La., on Jan. 8, 2024.(Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)
While largely a Democratic concern, and as newly drawn districts in Louisiana and Alabama favored Democrats, Virginia’s “yes” campaign did have support from a handful of non-Democrats such as anti-Trump former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
Like Louisiana’s map, Virginia’s plan has been subject to dueling litigation, including a recent move by a circuit judge in Tazewell County in the western mountains to place a hold on certification of the “Yes” vote, while the state Supreme Court considers a case over the referendum’s legislative process and legitimacy.
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In a statement, Fields said Wednesday’s high court decision “dismantled” decades of settled law and was not a “neutral reading” of the Voting Rights Act.
“Today’s majority has resurrected exactly that standard — and the practical effect is to make it far harder for minority communities to challenge redistricting maps that dilute their political voice,” Fields said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Obama for comment on criticisms.
Fox News’ David Spunt contributed to this report.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
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Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.
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