that we have seen from the republicans on the voting rights act, which sadly used to be a bipartisan matter. but in this trump era of her we can t even seem to agree that everyone should be able to vote, so long as they are legally able to do so. michael, sticking with you, on friday, alabama republicans defied a u.s. supreme court order to include two districts where black voters make up the majority. a gop led legislature passed a new congressional map that only included one majority black district, and it was just signed into law by alabama governor kay ivey. where does this redistricting issue go from here? will alabama be forced to adhere to the order and have to comply, or will they get away with changing the map some, but not to the extent that the so i am no lawyer, but i am told that they will not get away with this.
former speechwriter for president clinton, and now, there are cases that have been decided with the redistricting issue, but we want to stick now with the immigration issue. let me ask you about this idea that they are saying, look, the court is saying, look, there is no precedent for this, and does it mean that texas was unable to show that there was anything remotely like this that has happened in the past? last term of this supermajority of six very conservative justices pushed hard on some conservative priorities. in this case, they are saying, standing stops the states from going to the federal courts to say, can you do this for us. it is a political thing that the red states are trying to challenge the biden administration, and when other states are trying to challenge
democrats that there is a sense they ll lose control of the house in 2022. you have a lot of committee chairs who don t want to be ranking members. they like the power they had, the control, they want to leave congress before they re a ranking member. you have the redistricting issue. across the country, dates are redrawn, the lines, and some of those members who have enjoyed pretty easy seats are being drawn out of their district and they may not want to face a tough re election fight. the third issue and the most noteworthy is low morale in the house. people you talk to in private, they ll say, house members, they ll say they re not having a good time, there is not camaraderie in the house. they don t respect the people they serve with and that leaves people saying why am i doing this, why am i commuting back and forth from my home state, why am i putting in these long hours for something i seem to not be enjoying. that is a new issue. that is a new issue that has really risen with t
steve kornacki, did i just see you flirting with new jersey 11? i m going to call that up right now. i m sorry to look over your shoulder. we don t have a vote. this is another one, we talked about virginia 10, the democrats and comstock, democrats are expecting to get this district with sherrill, bad sign if they don t. chris matthews, can i just ask you, the redistricting issue in pennsylvania, a huge deal, why democrats think they have a chance to take control of the house. what happened with the republican efforts to run somebody against bob casey or tom wolf? bob casey and tom wolf are fine, but neither is super man. they both just walked away with the statewide races. it s hard to beat an incumbent governor. and casey is a magic name in pennsylvania. it s a sweet spot, pro-life, but
here and argue that in fact the idea that you are requiring voter identification with a picture i.d. is a violation of the constitution. that s what they are saying with the voting rights act. the idea that you are going to make sure the person voting is that person, you say 200 like that s not significant. there was an election a couple years ago where it was a couple hundred people. the fact of the matter is i cannot understand for the life of me the idea that the justice department they are already suing over the immigration law, they are defending the obama-care legislation that s now the law but to go after these states the supreme court put a stay in place on the redistricting issue. but to say voter identification is violating the voter rights act, this is not a poll tax. megyn: julian, let me key up the question, then i ll give you the