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Increase your political power. so, now that we have basically the trifecta where we have a democratic governor, both houses of state, the people who draw those lines will be in a sense unfettered. they'll draw lines that are very favorable to democrats not just now but going forward. that's important for congressional races. that's important for presidential races. and i think that you'll see throughout the country people will start to key in to this idea of who is controlling the drawing of these legislative district lines. just this last june, the supreme court said federal courts have no bu...

That she gets into. >> when i was trying to figure out, zerlina, in terms of assessing the politics was this voluntary-involuntary question. was this about rewarding berkeley. is it across district lines. are you saying here's an urban school district that's predominantly minority, it's predominantly low-income. so to achieve the kind of balance that's needed here, we are going to go across district lines into the suburbs. do you have a sense what she's calling for here? >> i think what she was doing was talking about something that happened in the past in her own experience to make it clear t...

Make a legal justification to add this question on the census, the problem is an issue he created. that's a pattern. make crisis, fix crisis, pat self on back. did he this repeatedly. if the push back on this has to do with lack of trust in the government, right? lack of trust that such a census will not be used to redraw district lines. that those who are immigrants won't fill out the census because they're afraid this is a problem he's created. the fact that it's fine, we can do it until october. >> hansi you were talking to tameran keith and you talk about the history of this you looked at ...

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, i'm going to start with you, how consequential is this? >> it is massive. here's why. what they said is they can't -- if it's political, they can't step in and can't rule and can't touch the districts. i thi...

With these fugazi arguments and they're obviously easy to expose. >> that's it. i'm done. always a humanitarian crisis. a crisis of his own making, in terms of when he was trying to say, oh, this is a national emergency, and shutting down the government. remember, he shut down the government. >> yeah, i remember well. >> yep. thank you, sir. >> he's got that emergency declaration. now he won't use it to help the real crisis. anyway, have a great show, pal. >> there you go. we could go on forever. okay. i'll see you later on tonight, too. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. and something ha...