for walking us through the list. absolutely. good morning, everybody. i i m bianna golodryga. i m jim sciutto. a critical supreme court decision that could have a dramatic impact on voting rights, more specifically, gerrymandering in this election cycle and potentially going forward. 5-4, will allow the congressional drawn maps to remain in place as the court battle plays out. justice roberts joined the three liberal in what s become a common result but this has big implications going forward. comes despite the ruling that the map discrikcriminates again black voters and violates the voting rights act. it will how it approaches
because we know that russia has been trying to exploit any potential signs of disunity within nato. and obviously the fact that germany will not be as explicit as the united states and other countries about the fate of this nord stream 2 pipeline is one potential area that russia can exploit going forward. quite a moment of disunity to have the russian chancellor next to the president, the president saying nord stream 2 ain t going to happen. and those words could not be elicited from the german chancellor s mouth at the press conference or later on cnn. and not for lack of trying. many people asked him that very question and we know he ll be traveling to russia and ukraine next week as well, meeting with vladimir putin and president zelensky. thank you as always. well, back to the u.s. and the supreme court, allowing alabama s republican drawn congressional map to remain in place, despite a lower court ruling the map likely violates the voting rights act by diluting the politica
diminished. the big picture here is the future of a key section of the voting rights act that is meant to protect minority voters could very well as soon as next term be cut back. it is interesting on this issue of precedent. i remember watching a lot of supreme court confirmation hearings where all of the nominees said precedent rules. and here is another case doesn t appear that it did. yeah. time after time we have been seeing that pattern now. and the supreme court we know will still hear the case, the full case next fall. but given the role that elections played in the majority s decision here what is the likelihood the court then will reach a decision before the midterms? it is not high. the court hasn t said exactly when it is going to hear oral arguments. keep in mind, if the lower court opinion had been allowed to stand here, democrats in the state would have gained another seat. now, that is not going to happen in the house. and, of course, other states are drawing line
black voters. the court s order means the map will be used for the state s primary in may, will be in place for the entire election cycle, while this legal challenge works its way through the courts. arianna de vogue joins us now. this is about alabama and this election cycle. that s significant enough. it is a bigger question here about where this conservative court goes on standards for gerrymandering. right. this is a big indication of where the court is going, and it is also the first 2022 election-related case the court has heard or has decided. so what the court said is these maps, drawn by republicans, are okay for now. they can stay in place. but the thing is about that is that the lower court said they violated the voting rights act, and they re likely to dilute the power of african american voters. so the supreme court took that into consideration and still
said that these maps are okay and their rational was here, look, this is too close to the election. so we re not going to do anything now. it is too close to the election. but the court was 5-4 and chief justice john roberts, he sided with the liberals and said the lower court here followed our supreme court precedent to a t. so we shouldn t have blocked it. and the liberals went farther. they said, there is plenty of time to redo maps and they said that if the court allowed alabama s rational here, even now, to allow these maps, it is going to hurt minority voters, but it is also going to inspire other states, right, across the country to draw similar types of maps. here s what elena kagan said for the minority here. she said the court s opinion does a disservice to the district court, which meticulously applied this court s long-standing voting rights precedent and most of all a disservice to black alabamians who under that precedent had their electoral power