to push the changes through because they have a supermajority in both houses which they've been able to hold onto because of the way they drew the state's legislative districts. earlier this year a court ruled north carolina's districts are, "racially gerrymandered and unconstitutional as such." while the districts are being redrawn, new elections won't come until next year. earlier this year the courts also struck down north carolina's gop-imposed voting restrictions as racially discriminatory. concluding the new measures "target african-americans with almost surgical precision." that's the court writing. republican-controlled county election boards implemented much of law, anyway, but things were about to change because under new governor roy cooper, those county election boards which republicans had used to push their agenda, were set to turn democratic. and so in their special session yesterday in just one example of their unprecedented power grab, republicans put forth legislation to prevent those boards from falling under democratic control. joining me now, north carolina democratic congressman david price, and congressman, i was