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Chief justice john roberts argued to the fact that federal judges have no license to reallocate political power between the two major parties with no grant of authority in the constitution. in other words, they can't get involved in a partisan political matter. the only thing confusing about that decision, whether you support it or not, whether it benefits democrats in one period or republicans in another period. they often come in the middle to resolve political disputes. >> absolutely. i thought that was confusing too. i've seen court challenges and judges injecting them 70s in this process....

Mechanisms to avoid having to get to the merits of how that power is taken. with the census question, they're able to somewhat avoid the merits by utilizing this question of the record needs to be more fully developed but at the same time, interesting to see what roberts is doing. it's definitely a slight at the trump administration. you can sense a sense of distaste in terms of how controversial and how questionable ross' statements have been. so i think you could read that in there. >> yeah, you can. in the passage that jessica read, john, when it comes to the census, fascinating. the sole s...

Is nothing this president will not do to break up your family, cage your children, and every seer existence by weaponizing the census. >> trace: so when you see congress getting involved in this, you see the 2020 candidates using this as one of their platforms, what do you make of that as to how it plays into the rest of the argument? >> well, certainly. this is part of a question here, the role of congress. they can write the census questions if it wants, but in fact, delegated to the congress, that they will return the most useful results for the government. but this census question, the sug...

Marshall will tell us when the court next meets. . >> two big decisions this week. jergerrymandering and the other case as well involving the census question, too. pete williams, we'll check back in with you. thank you much. appreciate it. and what's happening on the campaign trail. two days from now you will see the first democratic debate on msnbc. one of the most buzzed about candidates of the primary, pete buttigieg still plans to be there. typically this wouldn't even be a question. but he stepped off the campaign trail this week to deal with the biggest test of his campaign so far, fal...

To an unconfirmed white house official and also i think what the sticking point will be going forward is does president trump have a problem when he's trying to name a perm innocent dhs secretary are they okay with that arrangement and why the reason is very much still in >> i'm watching the supreme court. there is less than two weeks left in the term and 24 big opinions left including real politically charged ones. gerrymandering, census question, power of federal agencies. i think this is the first time we're going to see the impact of justices gorsuch and kavanaugh and seeing if john robert...