on the other hand, if the supreme court justices decide it doesn t matter that those laws disproportionately affect minority voters, that will be one more brutal blow against the voting rights act, which they gutted in a ruling in 2013. so if you want to keep track at home, the brennan center is tracking all of the bills that the republican party across the country has been pushing this year to restrict voting rights, often in ways that target minority votes. their count is up to nearly 400 restrictive voting bills introduced this year across 40 different states. it couldn t be more consequential and timely. those questions will be answered tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern by the supreme court. but then, of course, there s the, perhaps, even larger question on the mind of everybody in the whole legal world that in some ways everybody on the mind of everybody who pays attention to
the indictments. this means the indictments have been handed down by the grand jury. they are at this point sealed. nbc reported earlier today that the indictments are expected to be unsealed at a court proceeding at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow where we will find out what the charges are and whereupon the defendant or defendants are expected to be in court to face those charges. now, there is not an expectation at this point that former president trump himself is going to be hit with criminal charges tomorrow. although, that apparently remains a possibility for some theoretical potential superseding indictment coming after this one. i m not sure i totally understand the legal world common wisdom that there very well may be a superseding indictment beyond the one that comes tomorrow. but we re going to chase that a little bit tonight and try to get some perspective and see how that is the prevailing wisdom and how it s going to unfold. we ll have much more on that ahead tonight. but like i said,
philadelphia. that arrived in this whirlwind of news. don t forget that tomorrow is the last day of the term for the united states supreme court this year. and that means two very important things. first, there is two really big cases left to be decided. one about dark money, undisclosed money in politics. and another that, frankly, could put the final nail in the coffin of the already gutted voting rights act based on an arizona voting case. both of those decisions are expected from the supreme court tomorrow. election reform and voting rights advocates bracing for what s expected to not be great news on either of those fronts, but we shall see. the court has been full of surprises this year. so the substance being the last day of the term matters. but tomorrow also matters because it is the last day of the term. and if justice stephen breyer or any of the other
objectively observe that he has authored a few of the court s bigger decisions in the past few weeks. maybe that s sort of a last hoorah. we don t know. history says if he s going to make that announcement, it will be soon. ten of the past 11 justices to retire either announced their retirement or timed their retirement for the end of the term. again, the end of the term is tomorrow. big day tomorrow. potentially gigantic news day tomorrow. watch this space. i would ve called yesterday. but.
and court, why wouldn t we learn about it all at once? so the quick answer with respect to weisselberg is that he is being charged because they want to put a squeeze on him and there is nothing more persuasive than charges that are actually filed in order to convince a target to actually flip and give the goods on other targets. so it could very well be that weisselberg is being charged now in order to turn him so that he can then provide evidence against a bigger fish likely donald trump himself. with respect to the organization, it could be part of the same answer. it could be that the facts are still developing. but as i said, i do suspect we will see tomorrow this is not just a small penny ante, or as you called a case, but it will be larger scheme to defraud.