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>> nina, i was curious about your reaction. if you read the decision, first the majority decision and then the elena kagan's dissent on the gerrymander case, i thought it was extraordinary. i'm not an expert like you are, but the chief justice said we're not getting involved in this, it's too political we don't have the competence to judge and then you had eleanor kagan sent out an angry, basically sad, saying american democracy is in peril. what was your take on that? >> she really meant that too. i mean, when she read her dissent from the bench and as you know, it's rare to read a dissent fr...

You need to end gerrymandering in washington. we need to end political gerrymandering in washington. the court today said they couldn't do anything about it. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was colorado senator michael bennet last night during the debate last night reacting to one of two big decisions from the supreme court yesterday. many progressive democrats saying one reason congress remains under republican control is because of gerrymandering and redrawing of election maps by state legislatures. in a 5-4 vote they said they were effectively powerless to stop the drawing of such parti...

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...

Related in that sense an we're waiting for the census decision to come down in a few moments but just talking about the impact here of justice kennedy no longer being on the court. remember in 2015, it was scalia, i believe, who wrote the majority decision there essentially saying that the court that a map challenging extreme gerrymandering, the question here, was not reviewable, but kennedy left the door open in 2014 and he wrote he would not foreclosure on all possibility of judicial relief if some limited and precise rationale were found, but that door has now been closed. i'm hearing we're...

This, kate, of all times to abandon the court's duty to declare the law, this was not the one, talking about how this issue of partisan gerrymandering, whether or not politicians can orchestrate and kind of rejigger district lines for political gain, she said it is important for the court to weigh in but they are not doing so here, leaving instead these maps in tact and the decision really at the state level. kate? >> it's fascinating though because it seems that in the majority decision, they do applaud the different types of efforts that there are commissions, independent commissions, kind o...