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Way for a partisan overhaul and republican legislatures are the biggest culprits. redistricting is a routine process that comes up every ten years to make sure that each district accurately reflects the updated populations in the area. but as my colleague jane tim puts it, in an increasingly polarized country, the process has become a partisan death match. just look at whats happening in texas. out of the 150 seats in the texas house, only six of them are within seven points or closer, according...

Matter? it could have an effect on who ends up sitting in congress. i want to bring in nbcs jane tim. another scoopster joining us on the show who has buy lined both of those paste pieces. what have you found as relates to these businesses donations that they have made. >> the more mish story or the donation story. >> honestly, girl, take your pick. i said voting rights story but do whatever you want. >> lets start with in mish. they are trying to do independent redistricting for the first time,...

We known that for months. but the donations, they kept flowing. >> jane tim thank you for the great breakdown. great you have to on. appreciate it. thank you. i want to go back now to the capitol, debate was supposed to begin about 45 minutes ago, 40 minutes ago, or so, ahead of what we expected to be these dual votes moving forward the presidents agenda with that bipartisan infrastructure bill and the bigger broader climate and social spending bill. it hasnt happened yet. garrett haake, whats...

Rules if that doesnt happen, given moderate democratic opposition, that also is almost certain not to happen. lawsuits have already been filed against the texas laws with a judge temporarily shielding some abortion clinics from lawsuits. those cases may take awhile, they may run into judges less sympathetic. on the federal level, the attorney general pledges to look at all options, to challenge the texas abortion law, protect clinics and reproductive rights. it is not clear what the justice depa...

To pass better legislation. were just not seeing appetite for movement in congress. theres such a long to do list in september and october going into it, im not seeing the attention to doing that. democrats are going to have trouble trying to get these loss tossed out in court. president trump also filled a lot of the federal bench with a lot of his appointees who may not be as open to tossing laws out as maybe someone else. >> abby, pick up on that thread that jane is laying out, the idea that ...

>> on the legal side of this, jane, talk about the legal challenges to the law, what might be out there, what might be possible, what might be realistic. >> so we know theres two challenges before the law was signed moments ago. democrats voting rights attorney mark elias filed a third challenge, arguing it is unconstitutional, that it violates voting rights by making it harder to cast a ballot. i think democrats learned in the past they cant keep relying on courts to overthrow these voting rule...

Battles ahead. experts fear that gerrymandering could adversely affect the countrys voters of color who is growing in number. joining us is jane tim, nbc news senior reporting. jane, good to have you with us. you are the one that helps us break it down and understand it better. first of all, where could we see the biggest fights when it comes to redrawing the districts lines? >> you know, look to the south. the last decade around we had a lot of fights in the midwest, but this year it is all goi...

Gerrymander? do the legislatures have to figure out a strategy to make it work just right? >> you know, it is a really precise way that you do it. basically what you do in the south, and this is why voting rights advocates are so worried about the south, is the way you gerrymander in the south is crack and pack minorities into different districts which means you put them all in a district and them separate them out so you have a majority white district. it is dluts the political power of the peo...

Lawmakers to put that funding back and if they dont do that, they run out of money at the end of the month, excuse me. so all the employee also no longer get paid. hes trying to put pressure on the lawmakers, get them back to austin and back to work but without those texas democrats giving quorum to that legislature, they cant do anything. all they can do in the next special session is sign warrants for their arrests and try and get those lawmakers back unless they have a quorum. you cant do any...

Fighting it, but we do know that one of the leaders of this walk-out, and the move to d.c., he does plan to stay in washington through the end of the senate session, so we do know there is some precedent for at least one democrat sticking around and trying to put pressure on washington. >> well keep our eyes on this, jane timm, appreciate it. an nbc news exclusive, we learned nearly 1,800 americans directly affected by the 9/11 terror attacks, they dont want president biden to participate in a...