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The supreme court dropping a really important ruling today on partisan gerrymandering, saying federal courts must stay out of disputes in whether politicians go too far in drawing district lines to try to ensure their side wins. this ruling could fundamentally affect the balance of power. here to discuss, elliot williams and harry litman. good evening to both of you. >> hi, don. >> elliot, im going to start with you, how consequential is this? >> it is massive. heres why. what they said is they ...

Reason was false. so im going to send it back and going to come back with a different rationale for an honest rationale. i think its fair to say. has thrown out an agency action, has said we wont allow it based on the idea of a pretext. justice roberts sign that the commerce department, the reason they gave for asking the citizenship question is the department of justice asked us could do this so they could better enforce the voting rights act and justice roberts said that was a pretext and the ...

So this is a -- i think if i had to predict, the citizenship question is not going to be on the census form. >> ben, john roberts role in the census case, a significant one as our guests and analysts have laid out so far? >> yeah. so last year in the travel ban case chief justice roberts wrote the opinion for the court deferring to a record establishing the basis for the travel ban that a lot of people thought was a pretext. and people asked the question, okay, if the president can lay out this ...

That means that for now the question is blocked and it raises the question of whether or not the administration is going to have the time to put it on on the questionnaire. heres whats key. what bothered him was the justification put forward by the administration for the question. he said we cannot ignore the disconnect between the decision made and the explanation given. keep in mind, brianna, the government has always said that it was necessary to comply with the voting rights act, but challen...

But chief justice roberts agreed that the secretarys stated reason, namely enforcing the voting rights act, was a pretext. he says the evidence does not support that and we should therefore send it back to the w is. its significant that the chief said you have to come up with a real reason, not a fake reason. and were not going to completely defer to the president on this issue. it would have been as dramatic as the citizens united case if the supreme court by a 5-4 vote republicans against demo...

Wantic to put this question on the form is a pretext. we give you another chance to try to say what the decision was for putting the question on the census form. i have to say, okay, so then what? i dont know the answer to that. suppose the census bureau says, heres another reason. then what? is there more litigation? the decision does not answer that question. i suspect that was a compromise in order ton the chief justices vote. the liberal in dissents should be say this is it, the whistle has ...

Challenge. pete, walk us through this decision and why its so important. >> two big decisions today, craig. first of all the supreme court at least for now and probably in the long term as well has blocked the trump administration from putting a question on the 2020 census for about citizenship. so its a victory for 18 states and immigrants rights groups who had sued the government saying the government didnt have a good reason for doing this saying that they wanted to better enforce the voting ...

Pretext to impeachment. we will see if that turns out to be the case. we are looking forward to the 17th with great interest. >> sandra: it will be an interesting few weeks leading up to that. the two lets go to our a-team. chris bedford, editor in chief of the daily news foundation. progressive radio show host, and fox news contributor. i guess we should begin with you, leslie. welcome to all of you. i think the whole thing is picking up on the "be careful what you wish for." >> this will blow ...

In my mind that would be something like a tomahawk lead cruise missile strike or an airstrike on specific military target. a lot of collateral damage estimation goes into this to make sure we are not hitting civilians or the wrong type of target so trump has always options. he is in no rush and he will decide when the time is right. rob: a tweet from congresswoman ilhan omar. just like in iraq, using illegitimate pretext to beat the drums of war. that first line. we have had ships attacked, a dr...

The table, he should come to congress and this is how we should be responding to that. shannon: i want to read a tweet from a colleague of yours, congresswoman ilhan omar said aggressors are using this pretext to beat the drums of war. the media is taking these claims at face value, just as in iraq children will are, american allies we lost in the world will be less safe. no war with iran. final word to you as a veteran of the iraq war. >> nancy pelosi acknowledged today in the press that this...