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Many of these districts look like frankenstein. they cannot really pass any kind of muster in terms of any s sembs semblance to them other than trying to concentrate black voters into one district or disperse them across districts to dlut their overall voting power, if you will. i think there's another part of the gerrymandering crisis we're in to emphasize. it's helping to fuel so much of the polarization and brokenness in our politics and fueling this us versus them, zero sum nature of the politics. the politics of division. we want the politics to become good and that's why we need legislat...

Supreme court turned on, the areas we must use to fight. voting rights act although it was somewhat gutted by the decision of the supreme court in shelby, article two still says you cannot intentionally discriminate against a population of black or brown or any racial class in order to minimize the effective voting power of that racial block. the supreme court in its decision didn't disagree with them, in fact, the lower courts said there was evidence of discrimination but the courts said they should go forward simply as a matter of convenience, which of course is absurd. the state of texas sh...

Course, and we believe that because of the state intervention took place first and had the life without possibility of parole, they should be served out first and federal trial is more about hearing the defense on the matter. >> to the supreme court, this week, overturning court decision that found alabama's congressional map diminishes black voting power in the state. now, in texas, facing federal lawsuit over the gop drawn federal map which the justice department contends is discriminatory against black and hispanic residents. how would you strengthen voting rights in your state, understandi...

Wasn't sure was going to happen, is pushing for and putin has to be careful if he ruins this moment for china because this is a country that has had his back over and over and over again. >> yeah. and imagine how that would go down. it would be very bad for him indeed. reena, thank you so much. >> you bet. so late yesterday the supreme court allowed alabama's new congressional map drawn by republicans to remain in place. it comes after a lower court blocked the use of the map saying that it discriminates against black voters. this was a 5-4 decision with roberts siding with the more liberal ...

Electors? forgery is a crime. i know that from people signing anything at the bank, anything at the house, you can't lie to the government on paper. you can lie on tv by the way. you can lie in public. as soon as you get into a government forum, the congress, anything like that, you're into forgery and more and worse. so was any of that intersected? i think number three you want to know who else was specifically involved in this inside the white house. the members of congress i think is a great question and a serious one but most of them would be able to lawfully claim that anything they're do...