Gives republicans a team victory. What todays ruling on elections could mean ahead of november. Then, a Border Security bill dies again in the senate after getting no support from the party that loves talking about border chaos. Doj versus live nation. Why the feds are taking on the Entertainment Giant over Ticket Prices, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle, live from New York City berkeley are now 166 days away from the election. As we wait for tuesdays Closing Argument and Donald Trumps new york criminal trial, the nations highest court just made a big decision when it comes to the right to vote. The ruling involves a congressional map down in South Carolina and how its lines are drawn. The Supreme Court sided with South Carolina republicans and their map. The court by the conservative majority says the plaintiffs did not prove their claim that it was redrawn on the basis of race. The opinion, written by Justice Samuel alito will make it harder for plaintiffs to make challenges like this one Going Forward. Today, President Biden condemned the decision, saying it undermines the basic principle that Voting Practices should not discriminate on account of race, and that is wrong. The president went on to say this is part of a dangerous pattern for republicans to dilute the will of black voters. Speaking of the Supreme Court and Justice Samuel alito, he is facing even more backlash, including from some republicans , over new reports that not one but now two flags carried by some january 6th rioters flew outside his homes. The flags have also been used by some supporters of the movement. Many democrats are now calling on samuel alito to recuse himself from any cases tied to january 6th and Donald Trumps president ial immunity. If Supreme Court does not get its act under control, you can be confident that democrats in the House Of Representatives partnering with democrats in the United States senate will act the first opportunity we have to engage in their oversight, and the consideration of imposing an ethical code of conduct on Supreme Court justices. We are waiting the court relief on cases involving the capital riot. So far there is no sign of Justice Samuel alito planning to set out any of those upcoming cases, because an ethical code violation amounts to almost nothing. With that, lets get smarter with the help of our leadoff panel. It is a great one peter baker is here. Chief white house chris on it for the new york times. Hayes brown joins us, editor and writer for msnbc. Com, and formerly our prosecutor and civil rights attorney, Charles Coleman junior who has a new set of friends, he brought them just for us. Case, lets start with the Supreme Court. Why is it so important when it comes to the right to vote for all americans . Because like you said in your intro, this decision makes it harder to bring cases to the Supreme Court, or to bring to courts in general, to say this gerrymandering was done on a regional basis. Justice samuel alito is of the opinion that it is almost impossible to separate race from politics, when determining My A District has been drawn up that way. This is only really possible because of the shelby decision that chief Justice John Roberts authored, which made it so states like South Carolina which were previously under prequalification, had to go to the Department Of Justice to get approval from their districts when they were read john to say this is why this is not a racial gerrymandering and get approved for them. In destroying that standard, the door opened to Justice Alito being able to say, there is no real way to tell if this is racial or partisan. In doing so, makes it harder for his case to be brought forward and prove that Black Americans are being franchised in this way. Charles, what do you think of this from a legal standpoint . From a legal standpoint i think they have opened the door to this happening across the country and a number of different jurisdictions. To tether race and politics in the way that they have in such a way they are virtually inseparable according to samuel alito, allows other districts who are watching this, other jurisdictions , to do the exact same thing. I think from the standpoint of the Supreme Court making the decision, it is going to be sound until they change their mind. The Supreme Court is not right because, they are not last because they are always right, there right because they are always Left Progressive that often, because they have the final say from a legal standpoint it is going to stand, until you have definitive proof that certain decisions are going to be made. It is deeply problematic, has significant margin implications. We know the president cares a lot about Voting Rights but we have not heard about the much on the campaign trail. Where do they stand in terms of his priorities . I think it is a high priority, he has been frustrated from passing legislation in the senate where the filibuster remains in place. They chose not to try to limit the filibuster because they did not have the votes. Enough democrats were wary about getting rid of the filibuster. That is something that you have to look at again. My guess is after the selection, it is one thing you the white house talk about, can they make another effort at getting rid of the filibuster and passing a federal Voting Rights act . Without that they are not going to be able to do it. You will not hear him talk as much about it today as a few years ago. That may help explain in part why he has had some political trouble in terms of rallying black voters back to him, according to the polls. Pulls a show there is some frustration on the part of many voters i havent followed through on promises on Voting Rights, even though of course, that is because he does not have the vote to do it. That is a problem, of course. It is sort of a circle in that regard. But you heard him talk a little bit about it today, you will hear him presumably talk about it a little bit in the days to come. It has not been a major theme so far in this campaign. Practically speaking, do you believe the Biden Harris Campaign is making a mistake not campaigning harder on Voting Rights . I do, i think that from one standpoint, it makes sense to go hard on this because of this centrality of democracy to President Bidens election pitch. He is arguing that if donald trump is reelected, he is a threat to democracy. What is the opposite of that . It is enabling Voting Rights, it is putting the power in the hands of the American People. Given how much distress there is over elections, you see and pulling that people on both sides are worried about whether the election will be fair, whether it will be upheld. For President Biden and Vice President harris to gather and say, we know that it is important to vote, we want you to be able to vote, we want everyone to be able to vote fairly, that is what we are about. It is the other side that wants to pretend like people are voting. No one on the right is legitimately concerned about voter fraud, and his argument about maybe not accepting the Election Results, is all nonsense, where they are bowing at the altar of donald trump who will not accept your results. Charles, can we talk about Justice Samuel alito . What is your reaction to this issue, reports of these flags in his home, now in his Vacation Home . Especially on a day when he wrote such a significant opinion. There is an old football guccione said at a press conference, they are exactly who we thought they were. Samuel alito is exactly who we thought he was and you do not need flags to make the decision or come to that conclusion. You can look at his words, you can look at his decisions, his opinions. South carolina being one of them. The fact that there is no congressional congressionally imposed code of ethics on the Supreme Court means nothing. Because they are going to do what they are going to do. For as much as i respect and admire hakeem jeffries, at the end of the day, if this is a priority, you dont need further violations. We have seen enough, we have had so much conversation about court justices. Even if they give him an ethics code violation, it does not mean anything. Jeffries can stand up there and say if you do this one more time, we are coming for you, they cant come for them, right . These Supreme Court justices have a lifetime appointment, okay . If i knew i had this job for the rest of my life, right . I would do it in my pajamas, i would not look at ratings and i would not even read a single word. They have no motivation it doesnt matter if he doesnt trust them or like them, they have those jobs forever. Which is exactly where the notions of these flags, while they may seem to be exposing and enlightening for some people do not surprise me and they dont make a difference because it does not change anything about samuel alito and how he is going to do his job or the ways in which he is compelled to do his job, because he does not have to recuse himself from the cases involving january 6. He does not have to recuse himself from donald trump immunity case. Ultimately, these are just flags blowing in the wind. That is what i mean. Literally and figuratively. We have been here before with clarence thomas, it is highly unlikely that samuel alito will recuse himself. Lets be honest, there does not seem to be real political will to impose Ethics Reform and even if there is Ethics Reform, they are not losing their jobs. Where does that put us Going Forward . They have the choice to decide how they comply with ethics and, other than impeachment, which is a rather extreme remedy, there is nothing really that any other branch of congress, any other branch of government can do about it. What is fascinating about it is what Justice Alito is talking about in todays decision about keeping the court out of essentially political decisions, he said the district decisions are a political decisions by political bodies and courts dont really have much of a role in it, yet the problem is the appearance of politics on the court. The 63 decision today was, broken down very clearly along party lines, if you want to look at it that way. The six justices appointed by republicans voted in the majority of the three that were voted were appointed by democrats voted in the minority. Increasingly we have seen polls showing a public sense that justices and judges of lower courts are them selves partisan actors, not neutral arbiters of law. That has always been the case but if the faith in the system increasingly is seen through that partisan lens of political ends, it becomes harder to maintain the credibility and the faith in the system. What does it matter, hayes . Not to be a total cynic, if we dont have faith in our Supreme Court . Right . They still have, to charless first point tonight, the last word. Does it actually we could sit here and say polling shows the American People have no faith in the Supreme Court. Do any of them care . Here is the thing that is hard to wrap your head around. It is the idea that the Supreme Court makes the decisions, it is up to the executive to enforce them but no one is calling for President Biden to ignore Supreme Court decisions. That is a constitutional crisis nobody wants but i feel like the justices know that, that is part of the problem here is they are aware short of impeachment, there is no way to get them off of the bench until they die. They have the last word. But they are counting on the executive to fulfill their constitutional duty and uphold the law as the Supreme Court has interpreted its. Knowing that, they are just willing to completely flout any sort of impartiality that they should be having in these decisions and do what they want. So, i hear your point about them just kind of running, that is kind of what they are doing, yeah. Until unless and until they make a decision that is so egregious that it is impossible for a president to be able to stand up and say i will enforce this, that is where they are going with this Biggest Issue with the congress and willing to legislate, to actually put forward rules that say, if they did before and an ethic standard and set explicitly to violate his ground for impeachment, that is grounds for removal, without that willingness to step up and be a coequal branch, we are not going to move forward. You have got to wonder what all this is doing to chief justice roberts. This story requires a deep breath. The Washington Post is reporting in at least three states, electors who tried to reverse jumps loss in 2020 want to serve again. Most of them are currently under indictment. What does that tell you, charles asked if they still want to do this again . Currently under indictment. Reporter i have a few guesses, they are all the same. And that is, that they want to do the same thing, they want to be there so that they can wreck the process and stack the deck. This is not calculus here. We understand that they understand how the system is and they think to themselves, i got so close last time, this is what i did wrong. If i could just get one more crack at it, i could make sure i dont make the same mistakes i did before. It highlights the brokenness of our system and also highlights ultimately the things that need to be changed, such that you should not be under indictment for a thing and be able to go back and do the thing that you are under indictment for. That is deeply problematic and deeply troubling, although i joked about it, youre talking about something that is really essential to our democracy functioning the way that it should in our elections having the integrity they are supposed to have. This is deeply problematic on a myriad levels. It highlights what is broken which means we have an opportunity to fix it. Peter, your take . See michael, look. This is a sign the republicans do not see anything wrong in what happened, right . They do not believe that these indictments are legitimate in their view, that is what donald trump has been telling them and that is what they are taking away from that, that this is all political prosecution, that they have the right to try to offer Substitute Fleets of electors for the election and there is a chance he might try to do it again even in states where joe biden might win. We dont know how this will play out this fall, obviously donald trump is not the incumbent president , it is a different scenario if he were to lose and tombs of being able to try to overturn an election, it is very conceivable you are going to see a very disputed situation once again after election day, if there are states that are close enough in which one side or the other, we are presuming that would be more President Trump side at this point given history, would try to substitute that judgment about the Election Results for the numbers that are actually counted by the official authorities. It makes you wonder, Well Democrats who voted to save mike johnson, will they one day regret that decision . Peter hayes, charles, actually, charles, you are winning mvp of the segment for i am sorry, hayes. I have not seen you, i am thrilled you are back. The charles, he really shines tonight, bravo to you. Peter, as always, your great. I will see you soon. 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