The DeVory Darkins Show - Supreme Court hands Democrats a HUGE LOSS as Mamdani suffers POLITICAL SETBACK

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

Supreme Court hands Democrats a HUGE LOSS as Mamdani suffers POLITICAL SETBACK. This comes after the ruling will trigger new congressional maps to be redrawn in favor of Republicans. Citadel CEO Calls out Mamdani publicly for personally attacking him for political gain.EPISODE SPONSOR: Go to http://joinADF.com/DARKINS or text DARKINS to 83848 to have your gift for life MATCHED. TFOLLOW ME:⁠https://www.x.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.rumble.com/c/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://devory.wtf.tv⁠BUY ME A COFFEE:⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/devorydarkins⁠SHOP OUR MERCH STORE:⁠https://store.devorydarkins.com⁠BUSINESS INQUIRIES:⁠[e-mail]⁠

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In today's video, we have breaking news. The Supreme Court's ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act has dealt Democrats a major loss. Zara Mondani has announced a budget crisis for New York City. And James Comey is planning to turn himself into the authorities today after he was indicted for a second time. Let's go to the Supreme Court ruling and what it had to say. Take a look.

The Supreme Court just issued a ruling on a potentially groundbreaking redistricting case that could impact for many years to come the power of minority voters in this country. It focuses on the constitutionality of Louisiana's congressional map and how it was redrawn. The justice is determined if Louisiana lawmakers properly balanced constitutional and voting rights act protections. I want to get straight to CBS News, Chief Legal correspondent Jan Crawford, who has been reading through the opinion. Jan? Well, Major, we just got this ruling within the last couple minutes. The justices in a six to three vote, a decision written by Justice Samuel Alito for the other five

conservatives are striking down a second majority black district in Louisiana, ruling that state officials focused on race, and that amounted to an unconstitutional racial gerrymender. Now, this decision is a major one under the Voting Rights Act. It will go well beyond Louisiana. It's going to make it based on what we're seeing so far. it will make it harder for state officials to draw up these so-called majority minority districts, which have been used for decades and have increased black representation and minority representation in Congress. And it also, I think, will call into question about a dozen or so existing majority minority districts,

mostly in the South. Yeah, this is not a hyperbole statement. This is absolutely a major blow to the Democrat Party. Let me explain why that is. Number one, they do everything based on race. They use identity politics in the wrong way. And so they obviously in Louisiana, they drew congressional maps based on race. They create policies based on race.

And when an election comes up, that's their main talking point for why you should vote for the Democrat party because of race. This is just one part of that entire strategy from Democrats that absolutely has been and obliterated by the Supreme Court, essentially, because what's going to happen in the end is these southern states will now be able to redo their congressional maps, not based on race, but on what they believe is the right way to make sure people are represented in their state, which gives Republicans, if you guys are just looking for the bottom line here, a 12-seat advantage on top of what we already had known about the current state of congressional maps in our country.

So this is a big deal. And so let's go to CNN because they're admitting the same thing. Take a look. And we just got this statement and from Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry saying this about the ruling. My lawyers are currently analyzing the opinion. We are limited in what we can say at this time as this continues to be active litigation with the case remanded for proceedings back to the Western District. I know that's a lot of legalese, but the bottom line is early voting starts soon in Louisiana, Joe. So what can officials do there in line of this opinion?

Well, they can basically do whatever they want, and that's going to happen in a couple other states, too. What they can do is they can push back some dates. First of all, the Supreme Court definitely threw out the map with two black majority districts. So we know that cannot be used. That will not be used, for sure. So what they'll probably do, once they read the opinion, carefully, as was just suggested there, probably draw a map that provides only one black majority district. But as you know, Pam, like Florida is in the middle of redistricting efforts now, too.

Other places are. And so I really anticipate that other states will do it. But if they don't do it for 2026, they'll get it in place for 2028. And then when we get to 2030 with the next round of a census and redistricting, it really will change all the ground rules for what states consider. So let's go to the core of the debate. here. For 40 years, the rules basically said if your map results in fewer minority politicians winning, you're breaking the law. That's the Voters, that's the Voting Rights Act, essentially.

Now, because of the Supreme Court's ruling, it says you have to actually prove someone was trying to discriminate on purpose, not just point to the outcome. Now, this is the fundamental difference between people who lean conservative and people who lean progressives. Progressives obsess over outcomes. They want to legislate and build policies in America based on outcomes because they believe they can control outcomes. Conservatives believe the opposite, which is, hey, everyone is equal. Everyone should have access to equal opportunity. And we can't try to control outcomes.

That's way outside of our control. And that's why the U.S. Constitution is supposed to be used in a way that is colorblind. Now, the dissent actually thinks that this is very dangerous. By their estimation, this is going to have a broad impact across the country, writing the dissent by Justice Kagan, joined by justices Sotomayor and Jackson. She says the consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave. Today's decision renders Section 2, all but a dead letter. Now, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is the one that says, you know,

you have to make sure that these districts comport with the law, that they have to be examined under a tight lens to make sure there's not discrimination there. She says, in the states where that law continues to matter, the state's still marked by residential segregation and racially polarized voting, minority voters can now be cracked out of the electoral process. So she says the decision here is about Louisiana, but it could be going much farther than that. She talks about in the south where we estimate that's where a lot of these districts that they're impacted by this decision, they are in places like Alabama and in Mississippi. She says, particularly in the South in the last half century, minority citizens,

particularly African Americans, have been given a meaningful political voice. But she says after today, those districts exist only on sufferance and probably not for long. So essentially, if we're looking for the main point of this story, especially if you support this ruling from the Supreme Court, is that we cannot continue to use race to fix problems, okay? especially if we believe the problem was caused by race because when does it ever stop, right? This is why at this point Congress needs to move to ban gerrymandering, which is a whole other issue, by the way, because when does it ever stop? It just keeps going, right? At some point, you either trust that the Constitution is colorblind or you don't.

And the court obviously says that they do. Well, six of the justices on the court says that they do. So that's what's happening there. to this state senator out of Georgia, based on this ruling, is now telling the state of Georgia, particularly the legislator, to now redraw their maps. Take a look. All right, y'all, the Supreme Court just told us what we all already know to be true. Racially gerrymandered maps are unconstitutional. So it's time for Georgia and other southern states to remove these maps that we drew that were unconstitutional. You know, we look in the Northeast and we see what Democrats have done. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. They've completely removed

every single Republican congressional seat. The last thing that Republicans need to do is be weak need in this moment. This is a time to be bold. This is a time to be aggressive. And in Georgia, that means calling a special session and redrawing our maps. Yeah. Now let's go to our next story, which I just find to be so entertaining because Zoroamandani is continuing to learn on the job.

Okay. We already know about his lack of judgment when he attacked the Citadel CEO. And we now are hearing from the mayor that they are in a budget crisis. New York City, a $5.4 billion gap. And he made the announcement, which means that all of these government programs where he wants to make everything free will be delayed. Take a listen. New York City faces a budget crisis of a historic magnitude. We inherited a deficit larger than any since the Great Great.

recession. Years of mismanagement and chronic under budgeting alongside a structural imbalance between what New York City sends to the state and what we receive in return have taken a toll. We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need new revenue, and we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state. That is the only way to meet our legal obligation to pass a balanced budget, and to do so without imposing a financial burden onto the backs of working people. I'm glad to partner with Speaker Menon as we call upon Albany and deliver a balanced budget. Okay, let's take a moment because I want to tell you about my friends at Alliance defending freedom. ADF is a Christian legal ministry dedicated to advancing free speech, religious freedom,

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All right, let me just add on to this. Mondani campaign on free buses, free child care, rip free free free free free free care, rip free free free free free free free free free free free free free free free free free free free would require billions that New York doesn't have. So of course he's got to beg the state for more money. Then he's got to fleece the wealthy, because that's what he plans to do. And hopefully with all of that happening, he'll have enough money to make everything free, which in my opinion is a true contradiction of a free market. But that's a whole other conversation. We are extending the executive budget deadline from this coming Friday until May 12th because the crisis of the scale

cannot be solved without state action. I want to be clear. We are not simply asking others to act. New York City is doing our part. We are committed to governing with the fiscal responsibility this moment demands. Speaker Mennon and I have already identified meaningful savings, and we will continue that work carefully, deliberately, and without cutting the services that New Yorkers rely on. But we cannot do it alone. That is why we are standing together this morning, to underscore what is at stake and to call on Albany to deliver additional revenue. Okay, so what he's calling for to get into the details of it here, I'll read it to you. Zeramandani's asking Albany to cut the pass-through entity tax credit from 100% to 75% to generate

roughly $1 billion plus restructure pension liabilities and class-sized mandates. Hulkele rejected this change outright, noting the state already gave New York City over $4 billion in aid. this is what socialism will get you, folks. You see, he had a lot of great ideas in his mind. He gets into the job and he starts realizing, oh, wait a minute, the math doesn't add up. There's no way we can make this happen. Not what the way that the current budget is. So I got to go find the money.

The problem is he's not going to find the money because the money isn't there. Okay. All right. Now, speaking of him learning on the job, let's go to his beef with Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, who publicly finally spoke out. Remember, the viral video of Zora Mondani in front of Ken Griffin's building, right, and called him out personally in that video, it has not bould well. And the mayor is continuing to face backlash over that. But here's what the CEO had to say.

Take a look. Ken, recently the mayor of New York pointed out that you had bought an apartment in New York, and he wanted you to pay a so-called piettaire tax, even though you have employed thousands of people. in New York, you're building a new building in New York, you're contributing a lot of tax money to New York. Did that upset you? What upset me was the actual, the personal attack. Like, you were at the White House Correspondence dinner on Saturday where they tried to assassinate the president. And not too far for where I live in New York is where they assassinated the CEO of United Healthcare. So I think the willingness of the mayor of New York to make this a policy debate, a personal attack, just demonstrated a profound lack of judgment, just a profound lack of judgment. And I understand that New York

has bills to pay. Would you like to run New York for us for a couple years? I'm unelectable, Kenny. Nobody would vote for me. Yes, but like you can't actually get distraction from running right. Are you going to, Ken, you're going to go ahead with your building in New York? Well, you know, I'm meeting with the governor Thursday. Okay, you'll figure it out. And we'll talk about our future direction in New York. Here's the real question. Is New York going to put their fiscal house to order and run itself from a position of a strong government that's pro-business? Or are they looking to play? Why do the Americans think we can do socialism?

Like, we have none of that in our DNA, and we're just going to screw it up. He's so dead on. I mean, we have to understand Zoroamandani campaign on giving away things that he cannot explain on how they're going to be paid or funded. And now he's going to try to blame his predecessor and, of course, go after the governor because he can't find the money. And then at the same time, you go out and you attack billionaires who have contributed to that city.

That isn't going to work. Now, in the partisan politics of it all, you know, progressives, people who support his vision, they love the rhetoric. But the average New Yorker, they're not going to benefit from any of this. In fact, he's going to make things worse. I guess when I saw it, I thought this is the most public doxing of any American citizen I've ever seen. I mean, you went to where the guy lives, part-time, but you went to where the guy lives and called out his address. And now Griffin's going to have a meeting with the governor,

and how do you see this, Josh? No, I believe you're absolutely right. I mean, this is reckless, it's dangerous, it's ridiculous in this day and age when we've seen so many threats against high-profile people. But there's a larger principle at stake here that Zoran Mamdani is talking about. I think it was Margaret Thatcher, he used to say the problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money. He's going to find that that's more of a prophecy than a catchy quote at some point if he goes around insulting the likes of the Ken Griffins of the world who've had far more investment in the day-to-day betterment of New Yorkers than Zorah Mondani ever has. So when I hear this story, and I'm still thinking today, what Mondani is truly missing is leveraging

the free market. Instead of trying to make everything free, why don't you take the same amount of money and invest in small business, invest in entrepreneurs, get the community to be the solution, not the government. However, if you guys ever listened to Rush Limbaugh, he used to say that liberalism is the most insidious philosophy ever devised because it sounds so compassionate, right? We talk about it all the time, fatal empathy. They do things based on feelings, not on facts. That's how he's governing at the moment, and it's only going to ruin

New York City or whatever's left of it, that is. So let's go to our next update. As you guys may have heard by now, the former FBI director, James Comey, has been indicted on two felony accounts. He is projected to turn himself in today. I know on some hand, you guys may say, well, is he really going to be arrested? Is this really going to turn into conviction? We'll see, but I will say this.

Todd Blanche has been busy since Pan Bondi stepped down, and this is just another example of that. Take a listen. Comey is expected to go back to that federal courthouse where he previously beat a set of criminal charges to face this new indictment. He faces two counts. One is for threatening the president and the other is about transmitting that threat over interstate commerce lines.

So posting it on the internet where people all over the nation and the world could see it. This new development this morning is that he is going to be self-surrendering. So the FBI or the U.S. Marshals are not going to pick him up and arrest him. Bacomie is expected to be placed under arrest. We're still waiting to hear timing on when he will appear in court. But in this situation, he is going first to the Eastern District of Virginia's federal courthouse to appear before a judge there. That's because he lives in that district. So we expect him to be in that area.

But the case itself, it's out in North Carolina in the court district that covers the beaches there. The judge that will oversee it is a judge that has been on the bench for quite some time, but we'll see exactly how things go today. We know that Comey expects to mount quite a significant defense to this. The Justice Department has said that they took this very seriously as a threat, and this post 8647 in seashells they looked into for nine or ten months. The grand jury approved the indictment. But Comey, he said he never intended any harm. Yeah, of course he didn't intend any harm. Anybody would say that. I mean, but we know how he feels about the president. I guess the question is from a legal point of view is what he posted on social media enough for him to be convicted, especially him getting a felony conviction. Now, I don't know about you, but if I'm just looking at recent history, my assumption would be no. And at best, what will happen is the DOJ will just make his life hard for the next couple of years. I mean, that's just what will probably happen. And I guess the reality here is we shouldn't be surprised.

I mean, we know how they went after Donald J. Trump when he left the White House. We can't be surprised that this administration currently will look and seek out and try to find any way to nail some of these people. Whether they are successful at doing it in the end, that remains to be seen. But I'm not shocked by this story. I think there are better things to focus on. But Comey has it coming to him because we know. He did things that, in my opinion, were actually illegal. But because he's the former FBI director, essentially he gets away with it.

Here's CNN's legal analyst, he says this case is going nowhere. Take a listen. How did this get through a grand jury? I see a surefire loser. This case is going to fail. And the reason for that, Kate, is the First Amendment. You and I and members of the public have a very broad right to criticize our public officials, especially the president.

It is okay to post things that are stupid, that are, irresponsible, that are scary, that are silly, that are insulting. The only line that the criminal law draws, and the criminal law gives a very wide birth to the First Amendment is you cannot make a statement that is intended to make a specific threat of death or physical injury to the president or to another public official. So let's look at these seashells. 86, 47, right? 47 means Donald Trump, 47th president. But 86 is way too ambiguous to uphold a conviction. 86, yes, are there examples of people meaning 86 to reference killing or physical injury? Sure.

But far more commonly, 86 is just an old-fashioned term for get rid of, throw out, cross off the list, what have you. And remember, prosecutors, you have to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt. There is no way they do that. So you lean on this word, as you were saying, specific. Like it needs to be a specific threat to bodily harm. Yeah, the law calls it a true threat. It can't even be something rhetorical, right? So if you said, boy, I'd like to kick that guy's butt, that's probably not even going to be specific enough to constitute a true threat.

If one were to post hypothetically, when the president comes to this town, I will inflict injury on him. I will kill him. I urge people to assault him. That would probably cross the line. But Seychelles spelling 86, 47, I don't even think this reaches a jury. I think a judge throws it out. Yeah. So here's the case for the prosecution.

Now, whether it sticks or not, based on what CNN just said, is a whole other thing. Comey is not a random citizen here. He's the former FBI director and understands posting something like that from someone like him could definitely escalate threats against the president. He knows that. So him acting oblivious and naive or ignorant that, oh, I wasn't even talking about the president. I didn't even mean any harm. Yeah, I mean, you're pretty much assuming we're stupid or something, okay? We know exactly what you meant.

Anybody in this country thinks, especially what happened over the past couple years with respect, to President Trump, that it is okay for anybody to threaten the President of the United States, that it is okay to threaten the President of the United States and then have the media or others say, well, that's not serious. Then we have a bigger problem than I even imagined in this country. Of course it's serious when you threaten the President of the United States. And anybody that tries to put forward some narrative that this is just about seashells or something to the contrary is missing the point. You cannot threaten the President of the United States. That's not my decision.

That's Congress's decision in a law that they passed. And so, yes, of course, this is a serious case. Remember, First Amendment rights. That's what they'll scream during this entire case, if it even goes, I guess, far. And the legal bar is brutal here. So, again, don't hold any expectation that this is going to be successful in the end. But I will say this. Comey deserves zero sympathy.

He weaponized the FBI, leaked memos, and, his way through Trump, Russia. This is only one thing that they've been able to catch him on. Will they be successful? My bet is no. But do we believe he had this coming? Yes. But is that a legal standard to win a case with?

No. And so that is really the, in my opinion, the more fair way to look at this. When the former FBI director posts that, I'm not sure in the current political environment, he deserves the benefit of the doubt that by 86, he means, fire him, remove him from office, when we know it has the application, hey, kill him. Amazon presents Jeff versus Taco Truck Salsa, whether it's Verde, Roja, or the orange one. For Jeff, trying any salsa is like playing Russian roulette with a flamethrower. Luckily, Jeff saved with Amazon and stocked up on antacids, ginger tea, and milk.

Habaniero? More like Habinier Yes. Save the Everyday with Amazon. Yeah, well, particularly because he posted that after the president had already been the subject of two separate assassination attempts. I mean, let's not forget the context here, which Colmy is very, very aware of. Here's my experience with James Colmy, having sat across from him in congressional hearings, having seen him when he was still in office. This is a very smart guy. He knows what he's doing. He's nobody's fool. and you can't tell me when he arranged those shells on the beach that day and posted that picture, he just innocently didn't know what he was doing. He knew exactly what he was doing,

but hey, he's going to have his day in court. So for all of the liberals who are melting down, he's going to get total due process of law. Okay, so why don't we get your guys' reaction in the comments section below to this entire video? What do you make of the Supreme Court ruling 6-3 that racial drawn maps are unconstitutional? So southern states, you're going to have to go back to the drawing board, which potentially could lead to a 12-seat advantage. It's estimated somewhere around there in favor of the Republican Party. Then Mondani, I mean, he's continuing to have a tough time here.

The Citadel CEO finally publicly condemned the mayor as he has been crying about a budget crisis. He's looking for money that New York doesn't have. And then James Comey. I mean, what's the chances he's really going to get convicted? Give me your thoughts, your opinions, everything you got in the comments section below. And as a reminder, if you did get value in this video, as I said earlier, please make sure you like this video, share this video, leave your comments down below.

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