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You are watching velshi on msnbc. It is sunday, october 1st. I am Charles Coleman junior, filling in for my friend and colleague, ali velshi. And weve got a lot to talk about. In a surprising turn of events, the federal government will remain open, after Congress Managed to passed a lastminute stopgap measure late last night. Less than just three hours before funding is set to run out, the Senate Overwhelmingly voted in favor of a shorter funding bill that was rushed to the house floor by speaker Kevin Mccarthy earlier in the day. Then, shortly before midnight last night, President Biden signe...

The challenge centers on two districts in the heart of the historic Black Belt region of northeastern North Carolina.

The top court lifted a hold on a lower court case that could result in Louisiana redrawing its electoral map.

Thomas/harlan crow story is -- this is not trivial but technical. thomas has sat on the u.s. supreme court when it decided citizens united, shelby county, the gerrymandering case. this is the erosion of democracy's ability to function, one person one vote, the erosion of the principal that it was said by alito if you don't like this, vote people are voting that they don't like it and so the court is participating in making it harder to vote i think the thing that is really scary undergirding this is the same court we criticize is making democracy more broken and unstable the polarization we st...

Oral arguments today in a challenge brought by the republican lawmakers in north carolina. it is known as moore versus harper, it started as a gerrymandering case. why is this important? because it goes to the root of who runs elections in america. is it the states or the federal government?( here's a quick potted history. it all began with a legislative map, redrawn by north carolina republicans to gain an advantage, that their own supreme court dismissed as illegal gerrymandering. but those same republican legislators are challenging that lower court ruling. in short, they are arguing that a...