BY NOW YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN TH NEWS THAT VIRGINIA'S SUPREME COURT STRUCK DOWN THAT STATE'S VOTER-APPROVED CONGRESSIONAL MAPS. MAPS THAT WERE MEANT TO COUNTER REPUBLICAN MAPS THAT VOTERS VOTED ON THEMSELVES RECENTLY, IF YOU SAW THAT NEWS AND SCREAMED INTO YOUR PILLOW OR MAYBE SCREAMED INTO THIS STREET THIS MORNING OR YOUR NEIGHBOR OR OFFICE MAY YOU WERE NOT ALONE, IT IS ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE ENGINEERED THIS ELECTION FOR THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE, THAT THEY ARE ELIMINATING CONGRESSIONAL SEATS ...

THE MOST DRAMATIC THING A JUDG OR JUDGES CAN DO IN A DEMOCRACY IS TO JUST THROW OUT THE RESULTS OF AN ELECTION. THAT'S AS SERIOUS AS IT GETS, RIGHT. ESSENTIALLY UNHEARD OF outside of really rare cases of fraud, right.Otherwise, you don't get to just throw out an election. I mean, the idea of one person or a small handful of people setting aside the will of the citizens, tens of thousands, hundreds, THOUSANDS, EVEN MILLIONS OF CITIZENS, THAT'S PRETTY ALIEN TO OUR DEMOCRATIC TRADITIONS. IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN ...

SUPREME COURT STRUCK DOWN THE CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING APPROVED BY VIRGINIA VOTERS 17 DAYS AGO. IT IS A BIG BLOW TO DEMOCRACY AS VOTERS THERE OPTED FOR THIS NEW MAP, BUT IT'S ALSO DEMOCRATIC PARTY AHEAD OF THE 2026 MIDTERMS AS THEY SEEK TO COUNTER THE GOP EFFORTS TO GERRYMANDER THEMSELVES IN A VICTORY AT THE BEHEST OF DONALD TRUMP. IN A STATEMENT, VIRGINIA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL J.JONES said this, quote, today the Supreme Court of Virginia has chosen to put politics over the rule of law. This decision silenc ...

The Supreme Court's decision last week on the Voting Rights Act effectively allowing the redrawing of majority a majority minority districts. What is the broader ramification of that ruling. How did Democrats respond to that especially in the South.I I think it's very important first that we mobilize in those states. We see Tennessee and perhaps others moving you know without even getting input from the people passing these maps you know drawing them in the back room and I think it could backfire against th ...

WELCOME TO MEET THE PRESS NOW I'M KRISTEN WELKER. WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS, A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE NATIONWIDE REDISTRICTING ARMS RACE AND THE FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF CONGRESS. WITH THE MIDTERMS LESS THAN SIX MONTHS AWAY.TODAY, REPUBLICANS GETTING A BIG BOOST IN THEIR EFFORT TO KEEP THE MAJORITY EVEN AS THE PARTY IS FACING SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL HEADWINDS FROM THE ECONOMY, THE WAR WITH IRAN AND A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR PRESIDENT. THE VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT TODAY SIDING WITH REPUBLICANS, STRIKING DOWN THE DEMOCR ...

Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Kristen Welker. We begin with breaking news.A major development in the nationwide redistricting arms race and the fight for control of Congress. With the midterms less than six months away, today Republicans getting a big boost in their effort to keep the majority even as the party is facing significant political headwinds from the economy, the war with Iran, and a deeply unpopular president. The Virginia Supreme Court today siding with Republicans, striking down the Democ ...

Virginia's top court blocks the Democrats new congressional map. It seems like states all over the place are moving around their maps to various benefit, one party or another. And that includes.But I wonder if it all cancels each other out in the end. I don't know. I don't know.I mean, it's gerrymandering, I guess is kind of the one of the terms for Greg Gerow. Uh, Bloomberg. Elections reporter.Blum. Uh, Greg, can you tell us what happens, uh, in Virginia. Yeah.So the Virginia Supreme Court and a 4 to 3 dec ...

We have major breaking news on the redistricting fig between Republicans and Democrats nationwide. The Virginia Supreme Court just struck down the new Democrat-friendly redistricting plan that voters just approved at the ballot box a few weeks ago. Let's bring in MSNOW's legal affairs reporter Fallon Gallagher and this ruling just came out.I know you're still reading in. Fallon, what are you learning. Yeah, this is one of there were a few cases pending before the Virginia Supreme Court.And this is the first ...

Until the Supreme Court set off a fresh redistricting scramble, the gerrymandering wars had looked like a draw. Now Republicans might have the edge https://t.co/5iFaWAOq8d ...

If we have learned one thing during the course of this administration, it's that sitting back and doing nothing is simply not an option. And in case you're getting yourself up to speed on what is possible, and I was just talking with Chris about this, and I'm certainly doing that, there are states like Colorado where Democrats maintain a trifecta on the state level, and we're activists right now are working to present voters with a redistricting ballot measure this November. There's also New York, which is ...