>> GOOD MORNING. IT'S SUNDAY, MAY 10TH. I'M ANTONIA HYLTON IN FOR MY FRIEND ALI VELSHI.ONE WEEK AFTER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT EFFECTIVELY GUTTED THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, TENNESSEE ON THURSDAY BECAME THE FIRST STATE TO PASS NEW CONGRESSIONAL MAPS, DISMANTLING THE STATE'S ONLY MAJORITY BLACK CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT IN THE MEMPHIS AREA. TO DO IT, STATE REPUBLICANS FIRST HAD TO REPEAL A 56 YEAR OLD LAW PROHIBITING MID-CYCLE REDISTRICTING, ALLOWING THEM TO ADOPT THE NEW MAPS FOUR YEARS BEFORE THE NEXT MANDATED CENSU ...

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 ...