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draft. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. >> good evening everyone im ornament mormon median in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump has tried just about everything to slow down the governments investigation into the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. now hes taking his course to the supreme court. today, trump made an emergency request, asking the court to overturn a lower court ruling that prevented the special master from revealing the roughly 100 classifie...

on this tuesday night. ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening everyone. im ayman roy dean, in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump has tried almost everything to slow down the governments investigation into the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. now hes taking his course to the supreme court. today, trump made an emergency request, asking the court to overturn a lower court ruling that prevented the special master from revealing the roughly 100 classified documents taken during the search fro...

Georgia’s GOP-controlled legislature passed a new court-ordered congressional redistricting plan, creating a new minority-majority district by dismantling another one.

Leaders in Alabama are trying to take the state's congressional redistricting fight to the Supreme Court hours after a federal court struck down the latest map on Tuesday for allegedly violating the Voting Rights Act.

Accurately reflect the population. alabama republicans went to the supreme court to block the ruling, thats with the court just did. thats the ruling the supreme court blocked. which means that black voters make up about a quarter of the population alabama will control one seventh of the congressional district is here in the new map. just to be absolutely clear, alabamas congressional map is in flagrant violation of the voting rights act as lower courts saw. now the vr has been solely hollowed o...

It was not a gimme panel by any stretch of the imagination? then you have the supreme court coming in what should be a fairly differential standard and they instead said that we will force alabama voters to live under this map while we sort this out. when you contrast that with whats some of the state courts and it is and the state courts have found a way, most fundamentally, to protect the right to vote. because the courts are there for a reason. and when peoples fundamental rights are trampled...

Worked out with republicans in the legislature in kansas. we are watching to see what the state house doesnt i can promise that the state of kansas -- if the republican legislature override this veto and passes a blatantly unconstitutional map, they are going to be sued. and they will lose. >> okay. so in the case of alabama, janai, scotus has lifted the injunction. the map can go forward. but what happens now? >> well, in this case, justice delayed is justice denied for black voters when it com...

Gentlemen, im glad youre here. i was a voting attorney in the civil rights division of doj. and i cant believe were finding ourselves time and time again in a world that feels a lot more like 1964 than 2022. i want to begin with you, rick. people have heard the news, theyve heard about what gerrymandering is, with the alabama map. help us go deeper and contextualize why this is being looked at on a shadow document, for example. what do you say, rick? >> back in 2013, the supreme court killed a k...

Let me begin with you, rick, here on this point because i want you to help people understand. people have heard the news. theyve heard about what gerrymandering is and the alabama map. help us to contextualize why this is so significant that this is even being looked at on a shadow docket, for example? what do you say, rick? >> well, you know, the first thing to note is back in 2013, the supreme court killed a key part of the voting rights act called section 5 that would have required alabama to...

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