justice correspondenand columnist for The Nation. He's an Alfred Nobler fellow at the Type Media Center and author of multiple books including Bad Law, 10 Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. Ellie, good morning to you.Thank you for being with us. I'm trying not to overstate this. I'm trying not to have viewers look at me and say, dude, why is your hair on fire.This is crazy. It's really not. This is a PERNICIOUS, ACROSS-THE-BOARD ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY.AN ATTACK ON BLACK PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY. A LOT OF TIMES ...

>> 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 ...

We have major breaking news on the redistricting fight 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 MS Now'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 f ...

Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, all southern red states are working to redraw their HOUSE CONGRESSIONAL MAPS FOLLOWING THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION THAT ESSENTIALLY GUTTED THE LANDMARK VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965. ALABAMA BECAME THE LATEST STATE IN THAT FIGHT ON FRIDAY WHEN REPUBLICANS APPROVED PLANS FOR NEW PRIMARY ELECTIONS PENDING A COURT DECISION ON WHETHER THOSE NEWLY-DRAWN GOP HOUSE DISTRICTS CAN BE USED IN THE NOVEMBER MIDTERM ELECTIONS. CHAOTIC scenes erupted at the Alabama Statehouse a ...

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 ...

What, what, what is it you're, you're trying to drive to. Because I think a lot of people think this is kind of like, oh, done. Well, it has been a perilous week in American democracy, right, as we witness the fallout of the Supreme Court's decision.Lawmakers across the South are moving at lightning speed and intentionally targeting black voters, dismantling majority black districts, seeking to silence black voters, seeking to strip power away from black elected officials. I'm somebody who has been a lifelo ...

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 maps were drawn to maximize the potential Republican partisan advantage by winning and having a chance and opportunity to win all nine congressional districts for the Republican party. >> So the argument he's making this has nothing to do with race. He's acknowledging it's a purely political move.What do you make of what you just heard there. >> Well, uh, Justice Alo kind of it has given a playbook to lawmakers. just call it partisanship, say the word over and over and over again.Uh but we know that tha ...