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Added in order to suppress latino and other minority votes and the evidence was very explicit in the case. >> what do you think of that? the president responded and tweeted the ruling was ridiculous and saying he asked his lawyers to delay it. how does that square with the constitution? >> the constitution requires you do a census every 10 years and it requires do you reapportionment of congressional representation between the states based on the census. you can't really delay the census. i it's a very important -- particularly because of the other case, gerrymandering case, it's a very import...

Addition of a citizenship question to the census. and it didn't go as well for the president. chief justice john roberts rejected the administration's argument for the question's inclusion. he said the argument, conclusit appears to have been contrived and that win appears to have been a win for democrats. here to break it down, jonathan alter and in d.c., law fair editor-in-chief, zheng man, and author of "how to read the constitution and why, kim wehle. john, let's start with you. talk about daca. the court is taking this up in the next term in october. it means we could get a ruling in the ...

Have ruled yesterday that they were effectively powerless, however, to stop the drawing of such partisan maps. chief justice john roberts wrote in his majority decision that excessive partnership distracting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust. but the fact that such gerrymandering is incompatible with democratic principles does not mean that the solution lies with the judiciary. joining me representative counsel -- representation counsel for common cause, whose group was the plaintiff in the gerrymandering case at the center of yesterday's supreme court ruling. what is the supreme co...

But chief justice john roberts, again, with the conservatives, he said that such claims are beyond the reach of federal courts. that drew a biting dissent from justice elena kagan. she said of all the time to abandon the court's duty, to declare the law, this was not the time. she said -- she read the dissent from the bench and she said she was deeply saddened about this. >> ariane de vogue outside the court. appreciate the insights. pretty remarkable. 5-4 decisions, both by the chief justice siding with different blocs on the courts. big day. with me in studio to share their reporting and ins...

Satisfying the constitution. it has to be done in 2020. what i guess he's saying is can the process of preparing to do it next year be delayed to allow this extra time? because it's going to take another court decision, another explanation from the census. this is not an easy thing for the government to overcome. so today i would say that the odds of the government getting this question on the census form are less than 50/50, but can they overcome it, i just don't know what the answer is, it's a bit murky. >> all right. joyce vance, let me talk to you about this other critical case, this gerry...