forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
night that the president and first lady will head to puerto rico last night which was rocked by hurricane fiona 25 deaths in puerto rico have been connected to the storms. reuters reports that as of friday, 230,000 homes and businesses remain without power. fiona bore down five days after the anniversary of hurricane maria, which wreaked major havoc on the island before moving up the east coast. after puerto rico, the first couple will head to florida to examine the damage caused by hurricane ian. with wind speeds that top 155 miles per hour, tens of thousands of buildings were leveled, millions of people lost power. so far, nbc news confirmed at least 77 people have died from the effects of iain which barreled into florida s west coast as a category four storm on wednesday before veering to the east overland, reentering the atlantic ocean and making a second landfall as a category one hurricane and the carolinas. nbc s steve patterson is in fort myers beach where i left hi
states have the primary authority to establish election law. it s kind of an arcane theory. we re going to find out if, in fact, the constitution tells us that state legislatures are the exclusive and ultimate arbiter of election rules. many analysts say the outcome could potentially, quote, damage american democracy. and that s huge. it is huge, and it can be damaging. so let s look at how this works specifically. take north carolina, which went about 50% for trump in the last election, but the state s republican politicians abused their powers over map drawing to try to hand their own party 71% of their delegation. you see there. that s if you count about 40% more voting power than they won from the voters. that is a huge difference. it s self-dealing. it s distortive. it s not democratic. that effort was so braise judges threw out that attempted map.
alabama. it s called melvin mill again. it also concerned, allegedly, gerrymandered maps. it involves the voting rights app and whether or not this app can have their votes deliberately diluted in congressional map drawing. tell me how these are connected and the influence you think they ll have. well the voting rights cases very important. as you say, the question is whether, an alabama court will have alabama had to draw a second majority district in which african americans voted the majority, without violate the voting rights act. his star claim before the court is that the voting rights act, which was invented in the 1982, would require the majority districts whenever they lacked a whether that act is his self unconstitutional. basically, whether the principles of the constitution prevented congress from saying that there will obligations to create voting districts for the
hochul and other legislative leaders will appeal this, right, jonathan? that s right. what s really interesting is that the new york voters earlier said they didn t want anymore gerrymandering. they created a commission so they could have a non-political, fair district map. the democratic legislature essentially rigged that process as well guaranteeing it would fail and the map drawing would come back to them. so this is the frustration of new york voters to say they don t want any more of this. they want to have fair elections. sandra: this is going to have big implications which has happened in new york for the bigger picture for the control of the house, obviously a story we ll continue to watch very closely. professor jonathan turley, good to have you this morning. thank you very much and a good weekend to you. bill: legendary boxer mike tyson had a rough flight courtesy of tmz sports iron mike can be seen throwing blows