the impact of 370,000 black voters and eight mostly rural counties, quoted diminishes african rep marketability to elect representatives of their choice. as a, today the desantis map was blocked, and the question becomes what happens now. marc elias, the founder of democracy docket, helped fight on behalf of voters. he s been in court pushing for fair elections across the country, he joins me now. mark, tell me what the florida proposal was, why the lawsuit happened, and with the state court found. yeah, so chris, thanks for having me, it was actually more outrageous and even think. because the florida constitution prohibits drying maps that diminish the rights of minority voters. and the florida legislature knew this. the republicans in the state house, and that republicans in the state senate actually did an analysis, that said the desantis map will diminish the ability of minority voters, that s why
by ron desantis. the complaint was that the desantis map reduce representation for black floridians, by a limiting one congressional district represented by black, democratic and shrinking another, democrats took her case to court, and yesterday at desantis appointed judge agreed. finding the map would reduce the impact of 370,000 black voters and eight mostly rural counties, quoted diminishes african rep marketability to elect representatives of their choice. as a, today the desantis map was blocked, and the question becomes what happens now. marc elias, the founder of democracy docket, helped fight on behalf of voters. he s been in court pushing for fair elections across the country, he joins me now. mark, tell me what the florida proposal was, why the lawsuit happened, and with the state court found. yeah, so chris, thanks for having me, it was actually more outrageous and even think.
involved three unvaccinated senior citizens. aged around 90 with underlying medical conditions. so this amazingly low death rate, three out of more than 370,000 infections so far is raising a lot of questions among independent experts about the authenticity about chinese government figures but also putting chinese authorities in a bind. while they re highlighting this kind of numbers to showcase the effectiveness of their strict zero covid policy, it is also making it very difficult to justify the continued lockdown of more than 25 million residents of shanghai. the country s biggest city, its financial center but also a very important manufacturing and export hub. it is really shanghai s prominence in global trade that makes what s happening there increasingly felt not just across china but across the world. of course, for weeks, residents there have been complaining about growing challenges of getting access to groceries and
cult. they re going to use all kinds of dog whistles and probably straight out racially charged whistles. there a group of right-wing republicans who really think of putin as this kind of way to come savior of civilization laura: we don t know what will happen in a election in a few weeks, but if he can eke out a victory by a small margin, we all know the elites everywhere are losing ground. they claim to be the only true defenders of democracy but every day fewer people believe them. do they think we are not aware that 20 years the seam people have been redundantly pro china? obsessed with trade and technology sharing. china crushes all political defense all the time come up our establishment is thrilled to welcome 370,000 chinese students to our colleges and
to snow, debris and multiple accidents. from georgia to maryland, almost 370,000 customers remain in the dark this morning. all right. let s get a check on cnn business this tuesday morning. happy new year, investors. a record monday. right now looking at markets around the world, you can see a big jump in tokyo shares. hong kong and shanghai essentially mixed. and europe has opened higher. on wall street, stock index futures this tuesday morning leaning higher again. record highs for the dow and the s&p. the nasdaq also higher monday. optimism, the economy can overcome surge in covid cases. coming up today, a read on u.s. manufacturing and a check on the great resignation as it s known. the labor department reports the number of job openings and the number of quits in november. a near record number of americans have been quitting their jobs in previous months, matched by a near record number of new businesses being created. at&t and verizon postponing their 5g rollouts near airpor