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It takes voters from one party and spreads them out. three districts, two majority republican, one majority democrat, the lines are redrawn to get rid of the democratic district. splitting the voters so the minorities are into republican districts. packing is when a district has far more than 51% of voters belonging to one party so many people are essentially thought to be wasting their votes. imagine two competitive districts and a safely republican district. so now the lines are redrawn and mo...

In your state, and you better do it right now because whoever is elected in this next election specifically, whoever is elected in state legislatures in 2020, whichever party gains control of state legislatures in 2020 is going to get to set district maps for a decade, which will decide control of the u.s. house for a decade. and well control of your state for a decade. if you were ever going to run for something or support a campaign of someone running for state legislature or state senate, now...

Democrat watching right now, if you know someone who ought to run for something or if you ought to run for something, the thing you or your friend ought to run for is the state legislature or state senate. you better do it right now. whoever is elected in this next election specifically, whoever is elected in state legislature in 2020, whichever party gains control in 2020 is going to get to set district maps for a decade that decides control of the u.s. house for a decade and control your state...

Including a lot of democrats on the debate stage and say this shouldnt be a partisan thing. they said this will be a partisan thing. democrats, its your choice whether or not you play, but republicans have free reign. and they are happy to go with it. whether you are a republican or democrat watching right now, if you know someone who ought to run for something or if you ought to run for something, the thing you or your friend ought to run for is the state legislature or state senate. you better...

Not to -- >> whos really playing politics, okay? check it out? >> that was the president earlier today on defense in japan as his administration looks at delaying the 2020 census. delaying the census, can you believe that? it comes after the supreme court rejected his efforts to add a citizenship question to the form in a 5-4 ruling. with justice roberts. at the same time, the conservative majority court deciding to stop gerrymandering in another 5-4 decision. now the party that gains control of...

Cnns jessica schneider is at the u.s. supreme court. break all of this down for us. >> reporter: fred, the supreme court really handing a win to democrats in virginia today by throwing out that republican-led lawsuit and letting stand these court drawn district maps that did favor the democrats in that state. now, this all stems from a 2011 lawsuit brought by african-american voters. they said the 11 districts that were drawn by the republican-led legislation at the time relied too much on race....

In the state of virginia. the supreme court here not we h weighing in on the constitutionality of these maps, not saying whether they constituted an improper racial gerrymandering. they said republicans challenging these maps, they said the republicans from house of delegates in virginia did not have standing to actually bring this case. ill take you back, give you a bit of the facts here. african-american voters in virginia initially challenged these 11 district maps in the state of virginia ba...

2000 was a good year for republicans. it went away and different issues took over. there isnt a lot of comparison. there is one point of comparison which is the public doesnt like to have without their input what they voted for overturned. the republicans in 1998 jammed this impeachment through. they took the starr report and within two months voted on impeachment and within another month had a trial. so i think pelosi is saying lets build this slowly, lets get all the people to testify, which w...

And democrats would be well-served to actually put up someone who could go toe to toe with trump and turn out their base to do it. the chance that moderate democrats are going to vote for president trump is about zero. the chance that independents who have already made up their mind are going to change their mind at this point puts democrats in a strong position to actually nominate someone who can speak boldly to their message and not someone wishy washy in the middle. pete: it does feel like t...

So what have you been up to since 2016? eric holder has been busy. hes been beating one of the highest-profile republican governors in the country up and down the ballot, in and out of court, and on the governors home turf. and hes up for more. the main thrust of this group that eric holder founded with president obama is actually about the district maps that determine which candidates run where. when republicans swept the midterm elections in 2010, the first midterms of the obama era, not only ...