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Redistricting fight escalates after Supreme Court ruling
MSNBC· 2026-05-12 04:21
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. And tonight, the court's conservatives cleared the way for Alabama to move forward with a set of maps that would eliminate one of the two majority black districts in the state ahead of the midterms. The decision gives Republicans an opportunity to gain one additional house seat.Now, that came after Tennessee eliminated their only blue district also ahead of this year's elections. Meanwhile, Democrats in Virginia appealed to the high court to save their redistr ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-05-11 07:11
RT RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa)This parasite hates white people. Why did he come to Europe and not stay at home in India? https://t.co/vA44Nh9mJy ...
“An act of hate and racism.” TN Dem leader slams GOP over ERASING Black district
MSNBC· 2026-05-10 12:34
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 ...
Mystal on Southern state redistricting: ‘This is Jim Crow 2.0’
MSNBC· 2026-05-09 18:50
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 ...
Supreme Court Edition, Trump v. Barbara: A Century-Old Argument Against Birthright Citizenship
NBC News· 2026-05-09 14:02
When I was a young child growing up like in San Francisco and we lived in a mixed community, you know, and we just thought of ourselves as Americans if that our understanding of birthright [music] citizenship. It was understanding that all the children my [music] age had was born here, born born American. Simple as that. My name's Norman Wong. I'm retired. I live near San Francisco, about 50 miles away. Like the majority of Americans, Norman Wong is the descendant of immigrants. I'm the great-grandson of Wo ...
'We will win': Tennessee State Rep. Pearson on map fight
MSNBC· 2026-05-09 01:55
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 ...
GOP-led states turbocharge redistricting efforts after SCOTUS ruling
MSNBC· 2026-05-07 04:58
broke out in Tennessee after Republicans there unveiled a n congressional map that cuts through the state's majority black district and could flip the state's sole Democratic seat, delivering them an all-GOP federal delegation tomorrow the general assembly is expected to return for final votes the night cap panel is still here we had a very spirited discussion about all of this in the break Daniela this is the state's lone democratic congressional CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE LIKELY BEING DRAWN OUT OF HIS D ...
The Rachel Maddow Show - May 4 | Audio Only
MSNBC· 2026-05-05 19:13
really happy to have you here. There is a lot that the US government and this presidential administration is failing at right now um in in the courts, in public opinion, in politics, in the technocratic and practical functions of government. Um even some of their schemes and scams are falling apart. Every every day, every news cycle, the list just piles up of things at which they are failing. Today, for example, the Justice Department and the Homeland Security Department learned that their officials may be ...