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Pre-clearanced and required any change like this to be pre-cleared with the doj. that s why your friend, justice roberts is the author of citizens united and shelby counter verses holder and now the gerrymandering decision is a concern. i want to key letter word you said, doj, you have the department of justice of eric holder or rfk. i am not sure even if there is pre-clearance that william barr would have any interest in protecting the voting rights because they are not republicans. it is worse than that. texas created this agrgregious law. it has been turned down for clearance and they passed it anyway, successfully sued and ....
Have come out and the administration has been trying to block subpoenas to gain more information about the underlying intent of the case but the things already out show a transparently political purpose, done to drive partisan gain, increase republican representation in redistricting, to hurt democrats in funding allocation formulas and that s just on the information already out. the justice department refusing subpoenas to put more information out there. so justice roberts essentially is saying, the argument you ve made to us in court doesn t seem to be the truth. you re also really passionate about the gerrymandering decision. both of these decisions, really, they are all about politics. politics are at the core of these questions and it s all about the distribution of political power with the census, it has to do also with billions of dollars of money that would be going to districts but all has to do with the distribution of power going forward. is this a political earthquake or ....
First of all, on the census, this was a decision that went against wilbur ross, the commerce department. there was brief information that showed the commerce department was disingenuous. on the gerrymandering, kagan said it flew in the face of democracy. she said to even suggest that state courts should have states should make these decisions is laughable. it s politicians picking what districts look like. by definition, it s a political process that cuts people out of the process. both of these were anti-democratic if you ask the activists that were against them. on the census decision, the ....
Court in new york, which ruled against the government. that court in turn had sent it back to the census department. census bureau. what the supreme court has done today is, okay, the reason you ve given us so far, that doesn t wash. you have the opportunity to try again. the question is, if the census bureau comes up with some other reason for wanting to have this question on the census form, will there be time to get this thing back through the courts in time to get the census forms printed? the government had said several times you ve got to hurry up and decide this case because we need a decision by the end of june to start designing the sensing forms and start the printing process in time to get them ready for next year because this is such a massive undertaking. if the government was serious about that, that the end of june is a drop dead date but if there s wiggle room to get it done, at least the trump administration has another ....
Representatives we have over time, so that s certainly this is a significant case. that said the gerrymandering decision will have more of an meet impact. it uphead the proposition that members of congress congress can choose their voters. however, in terms of sort of raw number and political power, this is a decision that substantial favors represents. david, as we prepare for the second night of presidential the second presidential debate tonight, who were the breakout stars in the first debate? well, i think elizabeth warren clearly had a good night last night. first of all, a huge benefit of the draw. her four other closest competitors are on the stage tonight. she had a chance to own the space and get her economic message out there. i think that julian castro had a ....