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we have seen it in community after community. the supreme court today is hearing arguments on redrawing congressional districts. jerry manders, the process of reshaping a district to favor one party over the other. the court heard a case last fall where it claim ed that the process favored republicans. the case being argued today was brought by republicans who say democrats intentionally altered a maryland district to favor democra democrats. pete williams is outside of the high court. why did the court taik on the maryland case? it accepted the challenge from the republican challengers from maryland to be a companion case with wisconsin. but here s the problem. the redistricting is always done
set satisfactory. so bottom line, they think that it maryland went too far, but they don t know what to do about it. it sounds like the supreme court is going the way of congress. it s going to kick the can down the road. reporter: here s the difference. the supreme court has to decide these cases. one possibility, one exit ramp would be to say, you know what, you waited too long, republicans. you re coming up here saying that you ll suffer harm, but this redistricting was in 2011. now you come now. it s a little late. why should we take this case now? let the lower courts hash it out for awhile. that could be an exit ramp. justice correspondent pete williams at the supreme court. thank you. martin o malley was maryland s governor when the law was passed. governor, good to have you. thanks for being with me, sir. thank you, craig, good to be with you. i want to read this part of a washington post story that quote d you from a deposition i o 2013 lawsuit. quote, as the ele
the map and saddling president obama with the very unrepresentative house of representatives. we need to rise above it and move beyond it. hopefully the supreme court will find a way to do that. perhaps you heard that former president barack obama is set to hit the campaign trail in beverly hills for senator mccaskill. this will be the president getting out there publicly for the first time since he left office. what do you make of that? how much of an advantage do you think barack obama is is going to give democrats during these upcoming midterm elections? look, i think all of us have an obligation to do everything we can to win these midterms. i think it s great that the president is getting out there. last year i was in 20 different states for 31 different candidates. and if you d look at the special elections for state senate and state house, democrats have won 38 of the 44 that have happened. so these midterms are an opportunity for course correction. president obama sees that
congressional delegation. so we felt an obligation. even a duty to. push back in a system of checks and balances f you will, to do everything we could in our state to offset what we were seeing happening in other states. now i think now that we have gotten to a point as a nation where we realize the polarization, the separation from one another, an inability to find common ground has become is such an acute problem, a lot of us are hoping that the supreme court can invent some new standard that makes it unacceptable throughout the country. but when faced with what a lot of other republican states were doing, and i don t want to suggest this is some sort of this is not a matter of equivalence, i think it s well known in the record that 30 republican governors were elected in 2010 and they really took their pens to knifing up