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Cnn's jessica schneider is at the u.s. supreme court. break all of this down for us. >> reporter: fred, the supreme court really handing a win to democrats in virginia today by throwing out that republican-led lawsuit and letting stand these court drawn district maps that did favor the democrats in that state. now, this all stems from a 2011 lawsuit brought by african-american voters. they said the 11 districts that were drawn by the republican-led legislation at the time relied too much on race. therefore, were improperly racially gerrymandered. a lower court agreed with those voters. threw o...

In the state of virginia. the supreme court here not we h weighing in on the constitutionality of these maps, not saying whether they constituted an improper racial gerrymandering. they said republicans challenging these maps, they said the republicans from house of delegates in virginia did not have standing to actually bring this case. i'll take you back, give you a bit of the facts here. african-american voters in virginia initially challenged these 11 district maps in the state of virginia back in 2011. a lower court had said that, yes, these maps were improperly racially gerrymandered. me...

2000 was a good year for republicans. it went away and different issues took over. there isn't a lot of comparison. there is one point of comparison which is the public doesn't like to have without their input what they voted for overturned. the republicans in 1998 jammed this impeachment through. they took the starr report and within two months voted on impeachment and within another month had a trial. so i think pelosi is saying let's build this slowly, let's get all the people to testify, which will take time and we'll see where we are by the fall. >> joe lockhart, thank you very much. let'...

And democrats would be well-served to actually put up someone who could go toe to toe with trump and turn out their base to do it. the chance that moderate democrats are going to vote for president trump is about zero. the chance that independents who have already made up their mind are going to change their mind at this point puts democrats in a strong position to actually nominate someone who can speak boldly to their message and not someone wishy washy in the middle. pete: it does feel like the energy of the base is with the far left of the democratic party. where is the space for a moderat...

So what have you been up to since 2016? eric holder has been busy. he's been beating one of the highest-profile republican governors in the country up and down the ballot, in and out of court, and on the governor's home turf. and he's up for more. the main thrust of this group that eric holder founded with president obama is actually about the district maps that determine which candidates run where. when republicans swept the midterm elections in 2010, the first midterms of the obama era, not only did they retake control of congress, they also took control of 21 legislative chambers across the...