today that is potentially another obstacle to the census bureau getting this question on the form. so i don't know how that's going to play out, either, but that is very much a lurking problem for the administration. >> pete, dig into this for us, this other decision that came on partisan gerrymandering. explain it all. >> reporter: sure. so this is the question, it was from two states, one in which the republicans in north carolina did everything they could to minimize the number of seats in congress, the democrats could get, and just the opposite in maryland where the democrats were trying to limit republicans in congress from their state. in both states the claim was that the state legislatures engaged -- were so partisan, was engaged in such blatant partisan gerrymandering that it crossed a constitutional line. today the supreme court said in two separate rulings that's not a question we can answer because we don't know where that constitutional line is. gerrymandering, drawing these