Overview
- The CNN NewsNight panel, which followed Monday's Supreme Court decision clearing Alabama to drop a largely Black district, turned tense as Bakari Sellers rebuked Kevin O’Leary with the phrase heard on air.
- Kevin O’Leary argued the Constitution was being upheld, said states control mapmaking, urged critics to get over it, and claimed affected voters still have access to the ballot box.
- Bakari Sellers countered by invoking Brown v. Board, recalling his mother’s role in school desegregation and his father being shot in the civil-rights era, and warned that Black communities are losing representation.
- Host Abby Phillip stepped in during crosstalk to pause the exchange and asked the panel to reset with basic respect before the discussion continued.
- The on-air dispute came as recent Supreme Court rulings, including a 6–3 finding against Louisiana’s 2024 map, narrowed how states may use race in drawing districts, a shift that could shape Southern representation in the 2026 midterms.