An effort from Democrats to redraw maps in more states comes as two court rulings shatter the party’s optimism for beating Republicans in a gerrymandering battle https://t.co/o81zSUIquz ...

Well, this week, Donald Trump heads into a critical meeting uh with China, but he's weakened and he's overextended and he's still stuck in a war in Iran that's actively reshaping global power away from Washington. This is a war that's now stretching into its 11th week with no clear end in sight as it drains American resources and strains diplomatic ties just 2 days before this highstakes meeting with China, our our biggest adversary. For generations, Americans understood the presidency carried a unique resp ...

Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York where Donald Trump wants he usually posts about on Truth Social at odd hours. From his demands that states gerrymander their congressional maps to keep him in office, to compelling his Justice Department to prosecute his political enemies.Now amid flashing red warning signs that his party will lose the midterm elections by large margins due to both historical trends and his soaring unpopularity. Donald Trump is demanding an election ELECTION INTEGRITY EFFORT EL ...

This past week, chaos and protests broke out in state houses as Republicans and Democrats race to draw new congressional maps. What is usually an arcane process has become an unprecedented political free-for-all. At stake is control of Congress in November's midterm elections.With a razor thin margin, both parties are rushing to draw new lines, hoping to tilt the House of Representatives in their favor. Adding fuel to the fire, a landmark Supreme Court decision 11 days ago found a congressional map in Louis ...

New reaction to the Virginia top court's decision rejecting a redrawn congressional map approved by 1 .6 million of the state's voters. Democrats hope this new map would win them four more House seats. State Democrats are now appealing the ruling to the U the U .S.Supreme Court. We gave it to the people. We said that to the people, what do you want to do.And they told us they wanted mid-decade redistricting. That's a problem that the judiciary and activist judiciary decides in a 4-3 decision that they know ...

We begin this hour with a lo at Tennessee and a warning about where American democracy may be headed after the Supreme court's recent rollback of key voting rights acts protections. In a matter of days, Tennessee Republicans pushed through a new congressional map that dismantles the state's last Democratic DEMOCRATIC HELD DISTRICT. THE MAP SPLITS THE CITY OF MEMPHIS, WHICH IS MORE THAN 60 % BLACK INTO THREE DISTRICTS.A MOVE CRITIC SAY DILUTES BLACK VOTING POWER AND LOCKS IN GOP CONTROL OF ALL NINE CONGRESSI ...

The National redistricting battle is heating up as southern red states race to re-draw their congressional maps following the Supreme Court’s decision on gerrymandering. Watch MS NOW's coverage and analysis for the redistricting efforts this week. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. » Subscribe to MS NOW: https://www.youtube.com/@msnow » Subscribe to MS NOW’s We the People Newsletter for exclusive content from your favorite MS NOW anchors. Sign up now for free at https://ms.now/joinus MS NOW ...

fundamentally altered the architecture of American elections and setting the clock on democracy back by six decades. First, the U .S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement in a case brought by a January 6th participant.And yesterday, the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a voter-approved redistricting referendum that was meant to counter aggressive Republican gerrymandering elsewhere in the country. Together, these two decisions have turbocharged racist redi ...

>> GOOD MORNING. IT IS SATURDAY, MAY THE 9TH. I'M ALI VELSHI, AND THERE'S A STORY UNFOLDING RIGHT NOW IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH THAT MIGHT NOT BE AT THE TOP OF YOUR NEWS FEED, BUT I HAPPEN TO THINK IT'S THE MOST URGENT PROBLEM FACING EVERY ONE OF US TODAY, NO MATTER WHERE IN THE COUNTRY WE LIVE.THE STORY YOU MIGHT EVEN THINK YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT STARTED LIKE SO MANY SECOND TERM TRUMP EMERGENCIES. LOOKING LIKE A SHAMELESS POWER GRAB BY A WANNABE. DICTATOR FACING THE ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCES OF HIS DEEPLY.UNPOPULAR ...

DECISION TO BLOCK THE STATE'S NEWLY DRAWN AND VOTER APPROVED CONGRESSIONAL MAP, THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE LEADER, HOUSE MINORITY LEADER, HAKIM JEFFREY SAYS, QUOTE, OVER 3 MILLION VIRGINIA CITIZENS CAST THEIR VOTES IN A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION YET THE STATE SUPREME COURT HAS CHOSEN TO INVALIDATE THEIR VOICE, DISENFRANCHISE THEM AND VIOLATE THEIR DUE PROCESS RIGHTS. THE DECISION TO OVERTURN AN ENTIRE ELECTION IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND UNDEMOCRATIC ACTION THAT CANNOT STAND MAGA REPUBLICANS HAVE ADOPTED VOTER SUPPRESSI ...