Whoopi Goldberg Just Accused The Supreme Court Of Suppressing Black Voters On Live Television

May 5, 2026 Cat2, The Media
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Whoopi Goldberg has spent two decades using daytime television to lecture Americans about racism.

Now the Supreme Court just handed down a 6-3 ruling that destroyed her favorite weapon, and she went on air Thursday to tell her audience exactly who she blames.

What she said next about the highest court in the land should make every American who believes in equal protection under the law sit up and pay attention.

The Ruling That Set Whoopi Off

On Wednesday, April 29, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Louisiana v. Callais that Louisiana's congressional map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion.

He was joined by Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas, Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, and Justice Barrett.

The map in question was something to behold.

Democrats had carved a 200-mile snake across Louisiana, twisting and bending across the state to scoop up black voters in Shreveport, then Alexandria, then Lafayette, then Baton Rouge, and stitch them all into one district.

Chief Justice Roberts himself called it a snake. Look at the map and you understand why.

The whole point was to guarantee a Democrat seat by sorting voters by skin color.

The Court's reasoning was simple.

The Constitution says you cannot draw lines based on race. The Fourteenth Amendment says it. The Fifteenth Amendment says it. Six justices read the words and applied them.

Alito put it plainly. Race has no place in government decisions about who gets put in which voting district.

That is not a controversial statement.

That is the actual text of the Constitution.

Whoopi's Reaction Was Something Else Entirely

On Thursday's episode of The View, Goldberg told her audience the ruling was designed to suppress black voters.

"This is meant to discourage you from voting,” she said, “This is meant to make you feel like you don't have a voice."

She went further.

She compared the Supreme Court's 2026 ruling to the Jim Crow era, when she said authorities "were literally shooting people" and "running them down with dogs to keep them from voting."

Let that comparison sit for a moment.

Six justices of the United States Supreme Court, ruling that congressional districts cannot be drawn primarily based on the racial composition of their voters, are now equivalent in Whoopi Goldberg's mind to police dogs attacking civil rights marchers in 1965 Selma.

She did not stop there.

Goldberg pivoted to attack what she called Project 2025, claiming the ruling would soon be used against women who use married names and lack birth certificates.

None of that is in the ruling. None of it is even tangentially related to the ruling. She made it up on television.

What The Ruling Actually Does

The decision does not stop a single black American from voting.

It does not require photo ID. It does not change polling locations. It does not shorten early voting. It does not purge voter rolls.

It does not do any of the things Whoopi Goldberg told her audience it does.

What it does is tell politicians they cannot use race as the main tool when drawing district maps.

That is the exact opposite of voter suppression.

That is the constitutional principle that every voter should be treated as an individual, not as a piece of demographic furniture to be moved around for political advantage.

The Louisiana map Whoopi is defending was drawn for one reason.

Democrats wanted to guarantee themselves a second seat in Congress, so they sorted voters by race to get it.

The Supreme Court told them to stop.

That is the whole case.

Whoopi Goldberg watched Democrats lose a partisan tool and burst into tears on national television.

The Voting Rights Act Goldberg Invokes Was Designed For Real Discrimination

Goldberg invoked the Voting Rights Act and the violence that preceded it.

She is right that the 1965 law was passed to address horrific abuses. Poll taxes. Literacy tests. White-only primaries.

Sheriffs and state troopers attacking peaceful marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

That law worked. Black voter registration in the South soared. Black elected officials at every level of government followed.

The injustice the law was designed to remedy has been remedied for sixty years.

What Whoopi cannot admit on television is that a law passed to stop discrimination cannot be twisted forever into a tool that requires it.

The Constitution prohibits drawing lines around people based on the color of their skin, and that prohibition does not have an exception for liberals who think they are doing it for good reasons.

The Court did not gut the Voting Rights Act.

What it did was tell the activists and lawyers something simple. If you want to prove racial discrimination, you have to actually prove it.

You cannot just point at a map, count the racial breakdown of the people inside it, and yell racism until a federal judge gives you what you want.

That is how every other discrimination law in America works.

Whoopi Goldberg apparently believes voting rights cases should operate under a special standard where the normal rules of evidence do not apply.

The Real Story Whoopi Won't Tell

About one third of Louisiana's population is black.

Under the rejected map, black voters formed majorities in two of six congressional districts, which is exactly one third.

The Court did not rule that black voters cannot be a majority anywhere.

It ruled that you cannot bend a district 200 miles across the state for the sole purpose of engineering that majority.

Black candidates win elections in majority-white districts all over America. Senator Tim Scott represents South Carolina.

Congressman Byron Donalds represents southwest Florida. Congressman Wesley Hunt represents Houston.

Voters who have never met them looked at their character, looked at their conservative values, and pulled the lever.

The premise underlying Goldberg's outrage is that black voters are too helpless to elect anyone unless white liberals draw special lines around them first.

That premise is not just wrong constitutionally.

It is the most condescending thing anyone has said about black voters in a long time, and it came from the most-watched chair on daytime television.

Why This Outburst Matters

Goldberg has been the moderator of The View for nearly two decades.

She has reportedly faced internal pressure over teleprompter struggles and declining ratings, with some at ABC quietly wondering whether her tenure should end.

Thursday's segment is exactly why those questions are being asked.

The job of a moderator is to inform viewers, not to compare sitting Supreme Court justices to Jim Crow sheriffs based on a ruling she clearly did not read.

The Supreme Court told Democrats to stop sorting Americans by race when drawing political lines.

After nineteen years on television, Whoopi Goldberg should be able to read a ruling and tell her audience what it actually says.

The fact that she cannot, or will not, tells you everything you need to know about why so many Americans stopped trusting daytime television a long time ago.

Sources:

  • Mark Sherman, "Supreme Court voids majority Black Louisiana congressional district," Associated Press, April 29, 2026.
  • Melissa Quinn, "Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act in major redistricting case," CBS News, April 29, 2026.
  • Justice Samuel Alito, "Opinion of the Court, Louisiana v. Callais, 608 U.S. ___," U.S. Supreme Court, April 29, 2026.
  • J. Christian Adams, "SCOTUS got Louisiana redistricting right," NOLA.com, April 29, 2026.
  • Pam Key, "Whoopi Goldberg: SCOTUS Louisiana Ruling Meant to Discourage People of Color from Voting," Breitbart, April 30, 2026.