political gerrymanders are legal, racial jerry mappedders are illegal, and the democrats have discovered when they can file lawsuits, generally they win. it s a complete act of hypocrisy paul: racial gerrymanders are sometimes illegal. sometimes, jason, they re legal. well, we look to the courts for some clarity on this. again, they continue to punt as they ve done again in this case. paul: and as samuel alito in his dissent pointed this out to. thank you all very much. we have to take one more break. when we come back, hits and misses of the week. snuck. 80 percent of recurrent ischemic strokes could be prevented with the right steps. and take it from me, every step counts. a bayer aspirin regimen is one of those steps in helping prevent another stroke. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. it s how well you mow fast. it s not how fast you mow. .it s how well you mow fast! they re not just words to mow by,
trip. is beginning to build a coalition to do what the point was. paul: what about the charge, we heard the criticism that going to saudi arabia and overtly aligning with them, he is tilting too far to the sunni arabs. that ignores the shiite persians in iran in particular.let that is a strategic mistake. once again roll the clockl back 30 years. there were there open oil under the ayatollahs or the shop. that would be an issue. but, iran is a centripetal force trying to project itself and subsidize a terrorist in the rest of the middle east. iran is a thousand-year-old culture, relation with all of this projection of power and surrogates. i think it s welcome that the sunni arabs now say that we want
what happened and what didn t happen. well, i think the other takeaway here was just the incredibly poor judgment that trump showed in hiring general michael flynn. this is a guy who was paid by turkish group during the campaign, he registered later as a foreign agent. we know that somehow he misled the vice president, now we re learning that he maybe didn t disclose everything that he should have disclosed when he was getting his security clearance renewed. so trump came out and defended him. i think at this point you start to distance yourself from a guy like that, but trump just can t seem to do that. paul: the question is, some people have suggested, that maybe he, you know, trump worried that flynn might be able to implicate trump in something. i m not saying he has any evidence, i m just saying that s the scuttlebutt. evidence is the right word. i don t disagree with mary, but let s look at what has been going on in this investigation for months. everything is based on hearsa
who control the state legislatures said they were doing this because they wanted to sort of increase republican chances in surrounding districts. and, you know, what happens here, what s so difficult is that because about 90% of the african-american community votes democrat, moving black voters often means moving democrats. so it gets a little muddy. paul: well, and that s right. i mean, they have there s no question that republicans have used redistricting to pack some districts with more black voters which is legal. paul: they re commanded to, in some as collin was saying, because here race can be a proxy for your political views because of the high percentages that blacks vote republican for democrats, they find themselves in uncharted waters here x. the supreme court has given them no guidance. they use the same language when it comes to affirmative action higher education. they tell schools race can be a factor but not the determinant factor. now you go figure it out.
joins us with more. what s the big takeaway from this decision? i think it s that the supreme court has made things more complicated. you know, for years basically we ve been telling state legislatures they have to use the 1965 voting rights act when drawing districts. they have to take some race into account to make sure that minority voters are able to elect a candidate of their choice. and what the supreme court basically said this week was, okay, you do have to take the voting rights act into account, but you can t use that as a defense because if you put too many minority voters into a district, that violates equal protection. so this has actually gotten more confusing, i think for states, not less. paul: where do they draw the line between not enough and too much? right, exactly. that s sort of what people call the goldilocks problem here. this was a matter of moving just a few percentage points of minority voters into some of these districts. and, you know, republicans there