vladimir putin today appearing with his advisors as he tries to reassert his authority, saying he is in control despite the wagner group s weekend rebellion. translator: you can see the army, society, and people were one. this has allowed us to overcome the extremely dangerous situation that the country was in. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we have breaking news from the supreme court as the session comes to a close this week or next. a decision written by chief justice roberts rejecting republican efforts to allow state legislatures authority to regulate federal elections without review by state supreme courts. the decision was a big relief for voting rights groups who had feared the high court would validate republican efforts to prevent any challenges to gerrymandering of congressional districts. the dispute began in north carolina after their supreme court struck down a new congressional map drown in 2021 by the state s republican-controlled legislature
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vested in the state legislature? today the court said, we will hold with precedent here and we will maintain the status quo and say state courts have a role to play when it comes to some of the disputes. not just gerrymandering and not just north carolina but voter i.d. and the idea of setting the polling place hours. the republican legislature brought this case had gotten their way, state courts would have no role to play at all. think back to all of the disputes we saw in 2020, in all those cases where state courts really served as a check on the system, if they had gotten their way, the state courts hands would have been tied. today, the high court deciding they did not want to buy into that theory ahead of 2024. danielle, this has been a staple in similar situations throughout history. how important is today s ruling? i would expect from what laura said, this is a big deal.
you wrote the book. well, one thing that i write about in the book is the single thing that shock joe biden more than anything else during his presidency was the lasting power of maga, of trumpism. he thought it would be in the reviewer mirror a long time ago, he won by 7 million votes, he thought he had a mandate, arguably he did. donald trump maybe wounded, but maga is very much alive. i think they have their sights on trump as the likely nominee. e can still exercise a lot of power, and takedown rivals. i think they re planning to run against him. i think they feel that democracy is very much still on the ballot in 2024. danielle, few seconds here to answer. what is the one thing you want to hear biden touched on at the state of the union? i want joe biden to talk