course of its most recent term. the far-right roberts court has ruled back abortion rights, dealt a deadly blow to the separation of church and state, strict these states ability to determine their own gun ntrol policies. curb the federal government s ability to tackle climate change, and, well, govern, and allowed multiple gop led states to go ahead with functionally racist voting maps. you are worried about being polarizing, mister president? unelected justices, five of them were appointed by presidents who initially lost the popular vote, and they are getting our basic rights. that is what is polarizing. but, if those decisions that we just put on the street green, they don t scare the hell out of you? well, maybe this will. on thursday, the supreme also announced he would hear the harper, that case is a challenge for the north carolina supreme court striking down of a gerrymandered congressional map, on the grounds that he violated the state constitution by giving republicans an
change, and, well, govern, and allowed multiple gop led states to go ahead with functionally racist voting maps. you are worried about being polarizing, mister president? unelected justices, five of them were appointed by presidents who initially lost the popular vote, and they are getting our basic rights. that is what is polarizing. but, if those decisions that we just put on the street green, they don t scare the hell out of you? well, maybe this will. on thursday, the supreme also announced he would hear the harper, that case is a challenge for the north carolina supreme court striking down of a gerrymandered congressional map, on the grounds that he violated the state constitution by giving republicans an unfair advantage. gop lawmakers want to throw out that ruling, arguing that the u.s. constitution s elections clause gives state legislatures to determine how congressional elections are conducted. without any checks or balances from chased a constitutions or courts. you may ha
that helps them to finance this war. again, i want to repeat, the war is not only on ukraine, the war on democratic values, and pretty much on the world order. so, again, we welcome all the decisions, new sanction packages, and we will continue working with all of our friends and allies on more sanctions. and i want to commend the u.s. here on leading in so many fronts of the sanctions, but there is also still much more we can do together. for example, russian banks. all of them should be sanctioned. all of them should be on the list because there is no such thing as peaceful banking in russia anymore. ambassador, we do appreciate you being with us. thank you. thank you very much. coming up, the battle it redraw the nation s voting maps for the next decade, why judges are stepping in to stop lawmakers from rigging the system. plus, new unprecedented steps to track down the person who leaked the draft supreme court opinion that seeks to overturn roe v. wade. we have exclusive cn
outrage is growing in florida over the governor s proposed redrawing of the state s voting maps. it s being done in a way that would help his republican party pick up several u.s. house seats in the next election while hurting democrats and minority districts. protests were held in the state capitol tuesday, and cnn s dianne gallagher has more now from tallahassee. reporter: a special session here in the state of florida to approve new congressional maps is nowup way, and could have major implications on the 2022 and 2024 elections. the republican legislature approved maps that likely would give republicans an advantage, but protected minority districts. but the republican governor ron desantis vetoed those maps that were passed by his own party. he instead offered a new map proposal last week, one that does give the republicans an
sleep number takes care of the science so i can focus on other things. the sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now. only from sleep number. the march toward midterm elections is here. while official voting hasn t started, states are preparing for the 2022 elections through redistricting. you might care about your district, even your state and its voting maps, but there s a reason you should care about partisan gerrymandering wherever it happens in america, even if it s got no connection to you. that reason is quite simply, democracy. every ten years, states receive new data on population and demographics from the u.s. census. legislators use that to map out the boundaries for new congressional districts. also known as redistricting. the process itself is meant to keep things fair. accounting for demographic and