Ayanna Pressley Went on TV After the SCOTUS Ruling and Said Something So Extreme Even Democrats Went Quiet

Ayanna Pressley just called the Supreme Court's redistricting ruling worse than Jim Crow.

Now a congressman whose great-great-grandfather was born on a plantation is responding.

What he said on live television is something Pressley cannot answer.

Pressley Claims SCOTUS Is Worse Than Jim Crow

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) went on television this week and said the Trump administration is working to take America back to pre-Reconstruction conditions.

"It is very clear that this administration is working actively to take us back – not even just to Jim Crow, I would say even pre-Reconstruction," Pressley said. "Seeking to silence and disenfranchise the voices and the votes and to try to dilute the power and the Black representation of Black America."

The remarks came in direct response to the Supreme Court's April 29 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais – a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito finding that Louisiana's second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

The Court ruled that states cannot use race as the primary basis for drawing district lines, even when doing so to comply with past interpretations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Pressley wasn't alone.

Schumer ran to the Senate floor to claim the Court took "another step towards resurrecting the Jim Crow South."

Warnock called it "Trump's Supreme Court dragging us back to the dark and ugly days of Jim Crow."

Pressley went further than both of them – and invoked conditions that preceded emancipation itself.

Wesley Hunt Had Three Words for All of Them

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) went on Fox News and ended the conversation.

"Slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead," Hunt said.

He wasn't reading from talking points.

Hunt is a direct descendant of an enslaved man – his great-great-grandfather was born on a plantation.

He represents a majority-white district in Texas.

He's a conservative Republican.

And he called out the race-baiting from his Democratic colleagues with a precision Pressley couldn't answer.

"When I go anywhere, I don't see any 'whites only' signs," Hunt said. "I don't, I promise you. I am a Black man that represents a White-majority district in Texas. The great-great-grandson of a man born on a plantation that stands before you today as a proud, conservative Republican from Texas."

That's the story Democrats don't want told.

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The Party That Wrote Jim Crow Is Lecturing You About Jim Crow

Here's the part Pressley left out of her speech.

Jim Crow was a Democratic project.

After Reconstruction ended, Southern Democrats took back control of state governments and spent the next century enforcing segregation, suppressing Black votes, and writing racial hierarchy into law.

The Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery party.

Abraham Lincoln – a Republican – won the Civil War and ended slavery.

Reconstruction itself was a Republican project, and the Black men elected to public office during that era ran as Republicans.

Democrats dismantled it.

Ayanna Pressley's party built Jim Crow. Ayanna Pressley's party enforced Jim Crow.

And now Ayanna Pressley is on television claiming the Supreme Court – which just ruled that states cannot classify voters by race – is the entity bringing it back.

Colorblind Justice Is Not Pre-Reconstruction

The Callais decision stands for one principle: the Constitution is colorblind.

Race cannot be the determining factor in drawing congressional maps – not to hurt minority voters, and not to engineer racial outcomes for any group.

That's the 14th Amendment working as designed.

Strip away the slavery comparisons and the pre-Reconstruction rhetoric, and what you're left with is a party furious that the Supreme Court stopped them from drawing maps around racial demographics for partisan advantage.

Wesley Hunt already answered that argument.

The great-great-grandson of a man born in chains is a free man, a proud conservative, and a Republican congressman from Texas – and he's daring Pressley to look him in the eye and say it again.

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Sources:

• Shawn Fleetwood, "Resurrecting Jim Crow: Democrats Melt Down After SCOTUS Eviscerates Racial Gerrymandering," The Federalist, April 30, 2026.
• Amy Curtis, "Rep. Wesley Hunt Shuts Down Democrats' Shameful 'Jim Crow' Talk," Townhall, May 14, 2026.
• Supreme Court of the United States, Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U.S. ___ (2026), decided April 29, 2026.
• UPI Staff, "Louisiana vs. Callais Ruling Enables Erasure of Majority Black Districts," UPI, May 15, 2026.