Democrats say they are done playing defense as Republican-led states move aggressively to redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court weakened key Voting Rights Act protections. Democratic Senator Cory Booker joins MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart to discuss the escalating redistricting battles unfolding across the South and reacts to controversial comments from Jesse Watters about Black representation and political power. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. » Subscribe to MS NOW: https://ww ...

Tonight, Republicans across the country are making it crystal clear. When they can't win over voters, they'll just try to redraw the maps instead. And Democrats? They appear to be abandoning the old when they go low, we go high approach to Republican gerrymandering. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told Politico this yesterday, and I am quoting. We're going to win in November and then we're going to crush their souls as it relates to the extremism that they are trying to unleash on the American peopl ...

South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn is set to become the latest victim in the war on democracy and the war on minority representation in Congress, orchestrated by one Donald Trump and his Republican Party and especially southern Republicans. South Carolina's Republican governor is expected to announce a special session, which almost certainly will see the state's lone Democratic-leaning district dismantled, leaving the state with seven Republican seats. Clyburn is part of a growing list of Democratic law ...

Welcome back. We are following developments in redistricting efforts in several states today resulting from last month's Supreme Court decision limiting the Voting Rights Act. South Carolina lawmakers are considering a proposal to change the Palmetto State's congressional map less than a month before it's scheduled primaries.It comes as Alabama Governor Kay Ivey calls for a special primary election in August after the Supreme Court late yesterday allowed the state to use a congressional map that was redrawn ...

The Virginia Supreme Court's decision against gerrymandering may not be good for Democrats, says @profnoahfeldman, but it's good for democracy (via @opinion) https://t.co/r4TAEDLvsM ...