needs of the people of alabama.day the supreme court has said that must include fair opportunity for black voters to have the candidates of their choice as well. and we are thrilled. amy: khadidah stone is also with us in montgomery chief field and , campaign strategist at alabama forward. most significantly of the named , one plaintiffs and the case about redistricting in alabama, allen v. milligan. if you can talk about why you came forward to sue around this issue of gerrymandering? >> first, thank you so much for having me. it is an honor. i think the main reason why decided to sue was because i saw a lot of unfairness going on. it is one of those situations where it is if no one will do it, who will? that is why decided to be part of this case and take it on and i'm so glad that i was given that opportunity to do so alongside my amazing co-plaintiffs and our amazing legal team. juan: could you talk about the impact this ruling will have on the work you do in alabama and what you hope and expect that the alabama

i'm not sted in alabama's current guidelines. i'm not interen alabama's current guidelines.'m interested in whyou think, as a matter of federal law, as a matter of the vong rights act, you are prohibited zero majority-minorityhat has districts. mr. lacour: i think it w depend on sort of the guidelines that are being proposed there and the motivations. this court said in lulac breaking uxisting district is -- is inherently suspect. and so that woul a much stronger case. the i'll note lulac is actually only published opinion of this court where you found a n 2 violation, and justice kagan: so you think that there are circumstances -- i because some of your arguments sweep extremely widely, maybe most of them -- that there are population that is 27 percent of essentially be foreclosed from electing a candidate of their oice anywhere? mr. lacour: your honor, there's always goibe that intensely local appraisal to see what was going oe. obviously, if we had had the guidelines and we passed a map that took us from one down to zero, where we retained the co districts 1 through 6 but

of alabama's plan. and again, alabama's own board of education map, which was drawn at the same time, using same redistricting criteria, which in alabama's guidelines includes race, created virtual the same district that also spreads across the state. and then you had a question earlier about what these guidelines are.stricting this court in perry vperez recognized that when you're drawing remedial maps that you hatake into consideration state and local redistricting criteria, except those criter violate section 2. here core retent nearly always going to violate section 2 and our plans tried to take that factor in aount as much as possible without perpetuating the violation. justice barrett: just e question. if we iet gingles step 1 as you proposed, is the result of the test to that a state must maximize so long as it can do to so in r-blyompact districts?- reasonably compact mr. ross: not at all. maximization is not necessary. st because you can draw an additional district doesn't mean that you would s

alabama has one of the strictest abortion bans in the us. neighbouring florida has become a destination state for the procedure... thank you very much! ..a reputation its governor and now presidential nominee wants to undo. we've spoken to people on either side of this divisive debate... i would like to see an outright ban of abortion in america. it makes me angry. it makes me sick to my stomach that, on my watch, this happened. ..and spent with patients who've fallen through the gaps. she showed us the ultrasound photo and she kept saying, "i wish there was more i could do for you". 12 months on, how are restrictions on essential healthcare impacting america? famed for its southern hospitality, you can't stay a stranger for long in alabama. the republican stronghold is also known for its conservative and christian values and has one of the country's highest per capita execution rates. come on, boss. this lawyer moved here to defend inmates on death row. i'm alison mollman. i live and work in montgomery, alabama, with my partner steph and ou

of alabama. the supreme court orders alabama to redraw their congressional maps that have been in the congressional cycle since 2022 to give black voters more representation, and upholding the section 2 of to voting rights act. it denies any election, it bars any election law that denys a vote on the basis of race. and there is deep concern this conservative court that gutted many parts of the voting rights act would gut section two of the voting rights act, and to take you back, it is about the congressional voting act that was in effect in 2022, and the black voters challenged it saying they were majorities in 1 of 7 congressional districts despite that black voters make up 27% of the state. the voting map was kept in place for 2022, but the supreme court is saying to go back the redraw it. the state of alabama said, look, specifically this, they had said that we are in a political system where race no longer matters, and all you to do is to draw fair maps with race neutral criteria, and the co

in alabama, weputably do too. whenemocrats controlled senator hank sanders from selma, alabama, proposed the 2002 map, it looked a lot like the 1992 map. justice kava last -- last you've referred a couple times to maximization and proportionality, but my understanding is t compactness, the compactness requirement, was the critical part of thuiry under gingles revents the statute from being maximization or pionality because you 't just group together people throughout the state in an attempt to maximize or s proportionality. it has to be reay compact. so doesn'compactness requirement mean that it's not a simple mation or proportionality requirement if the compactness requirement is properly applied? cour: if it's properly applied and they actually ha traditional districtingr principles, but i' you to imagine yourself as a legislator justice vanaugh: i think i should -- i should let others question now. ief justice roberts: justice barrett? justice barrett: mr. lacour, i think i'struggling in the same i think i'm st

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and alabama. the new york city skyline blanketed. in the nation's capital, washington monument barely visible. the worst air quality in the world, another american city recording a level even worse. some schools in the northeast closed tonight. president biden already sending hundreds of firefighters to help canada battle the fires. timing this out when this system shifts. tonight, former president trump, abc news confirming he's now received a letter from the special counsel's office officially warning him he is the target of an ongoing special counsel investigation linked to his handling of classified documents. what this now means for any potential indictment and how soon. late reporting. tonight, prime suspect in the disappearance of natalie holloway has now been extradited from peru to the u.s. arriving late today and where this goes. in florida the case of a young mother shot and killed by a neighbor. the neighbor shooting right through her own front door. tonight the suspect appearing before the judge listed as a suicide risk,

more than a quarter of alabama's population is black.se of the way those voters are divided up school is the only black lawmaker representing one of the state's 7 congressional districts. the ruling directs alabama to create a second district made of mostly black voters. the alabama legislature. >> engage in race based gerrymandering house democratic leader hakeem jeffries praised the decision with school. >> who will now see her own district change. it's a small price to pay to to carve up my district in order to be able to have to majority minority districts. republicans control the legislature and governor's mansion in alabama and previously rejected creating a second district that would likely send another democrat to congress is going to lead to a couple democratic districts in the house because of the ruling. professor chris war shot an expert on redistricting at george washington university expects additional districts for black voters to be drawn in alabama, louisiana and potentially georgia, texas and south carolina. >> by the 2

he was extradited for that brought him back to alabama . anna berry weather, nice to have some more sunshine this afternoon. here is our view looking out towards san francisco bay. i am tracking another system offshore that could bring in some more clouds in your friday forecast. and we'll have the update coming up there are currently more than 750,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the u.s. the google cybersecurity certificate was made to fill that gap and help grow the workforce that's keeping us all safe. it stated wire fraud charges. the main suspect in the disappearance of 18 year old natalee holloway is now in us custody. a plane filled with fbi agents transferred joran van der sloot from peru to birmingham, alabama, on thursday . there he faces federal charges for alleged financial crimes against the holloway family. the closure may come in that they get to face him in court in the united states. van der sloot is currently serving a 28 year sentence in peru for the murder of a 21 year old woman. peru agreed to his temporary extraditi

the high court just issued a major decision in a very closely watched case centering around alabama's congressional district map. in a surprise decision, the court ruled in favor of black voters who say the state could have drawn another black majority district. with us now to talk about this, nbc news julia ainsley outside the u.s. supreme court, and nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett, and eddie glod, professor at princeton university and msnbc political analyst. how did the court rule in this case, specifically? >> you're right, it was a surprise because the court actually said that alabama was in violation of section 2 of the voting rights act because the way they drew these boundaries and their refusal to let black civil rights groups remedy those guidelines saying that they were actually drawn in a way that would dilute their vote and were racially motivated, the court is saying that in fact alabama was in violation of section 2 of the voting rights act. this is a surprise. you have chief justice john roberts siding with the majority and justice kavanaugh. with tho

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alabama said use these computers. this is what it is, and john roberts hates computers like john conner hates computers in the terminator series. i always thought john roberts hated black people more, but when a computer can tell you what's race neutral, he understands that means a computer can tell you what's racist. that means judges can't make the decision of how much race is involved in voting. i think more than anything else, that's why roberts went against his own type, against his own prior arguments to uphold the voting rights act after a career of trying to destroy it. >> very interesting. basically, he thinks ai is going to replace the court. maya, let's go into this. i'm going to put up a map here that shows how egregious this is. we have talked about this before in alabama. if you can see it there, the purple shows you black representation and how that big circle is around all basically where the black folks live, and they're all packed in one district. that's 27% of the population, they get one member of

so over a quarter of alabama's total population, the supreme court ruling requires alabama to now draw a 2nd district with a black majority of this decision reaffirms the landmark voting rights act, signed by president. lyndon johnson in 1965, which was designed to prevent racial discrimination in voting. the law came in response to black people being denied their rights to vote. and alabama and other southern states precisely, that discrimination triggered peaceful protests that were often broken up through really fine police, gloria jane brown. marshall is a professor of constitutional law at john jay college in new york city. and she's also the author of the book, the voting rights will be in double a c p, and the ongoing struggle for justice miss brown, martial, welcome back to the w. good to see you. give us a sense of how important the supreme court ruling is. i think it's important not just because the us supreme court has stood up to support the voting rights that can continue the protections for people of color, not just african americans with native americans, latinos, asian

so over a quarter of alabama, the total population, the supreme court ruling requires alabama to now draw a 2nd district with a black majority of this decision reaffirms the landmark voting rights act, signed by president. lyndon johnson in 1965, which was designed to prevent racial discrimination in voting. the law came in response to black people being denied their rights to vote. and alabama and other southern states precisely, that discrimination triggered peaceful protests that were often broken up through really fine police, gloria jane brown. marshall is a professor of constitutional law at john jay college in new york city. and she's also the author of the book, the voting rights will be in double a c p and the ongoing struggle for justice ms. brown, martial, welcome back to d. w. good to see you give us a sense of how important the supreme court ruling is. i think it's important not just because the us supreme court has stood up to support the voting rights act and continue the protections for people of color, not just african americans with native americans, latinos, asian

you have been an organizer now and alabama for decades.forefront of this fight. >> yes, so first i want to say thank you so much symone for having me on here. it's truly an honor. i was actually in the beauty supply store, and i am urgently burst out into tears. i have the feeling of pure joy. i was very optimistic, but i was also realistic about what kind of court we are really dealing with here. so my overall feeling is ecstatic, joyful, happy. but i do understand that the work is not over. >> so, let's talk about some particulars of the case. the state of alabama argued that they are -- there couldn't be an additional black district without prioritizing race over other districts. and it's mapping factors. you and your team proved them wrong. i was reading in the decision, that you all actually provided a number of maps to the justices. in your case, dealing detailing how there were so many other ways that these maps could have been drawn that protected the participation of black voters in alabama. >> yeah, you know, alabama, we have sev

you know, this was a real test for the voting rights act, alabama through, the case was about alabama'sher king began his ministry. if this case in which there is a really clear black community that was in need of representation wasn't going to win, there is going to be no case that would win from the supreme court, and the fact that the court found not only that black voters were discriminated against, but it is a historical and significant when that against, but it is a historical and significant win that will reverberate for years. election law experts are calling it a surprise because this is a court that has chipped away in recent years at the voting act, so why do you think the court ruled the way it did? i think the court ruled this way because in alabama it is sort of undeniable what happened. there is this region of alabama called the black belt that was divided into four congressional districts, when it is very clear that it is possible to divide it into only two districts in which black voters would have an opportunity to elect their candidates of choice. the three judges who

>> a big win for black voters in the state of alabama. supreme court ruling in a 5-4 ruling a moment ago that the state of alabama must redraw the congressional maps. this is case where the black voter had challenged the congressional maps in place in 2022 saying that they had a majority in 1 of 7 congressional maps despite they make up 27% of the state 's population. with chief justice roberts and kavanaugh siding with the liberals and four of the others consenting and siding with the district court. a year ago, the district court said that the congressional maps should be redrawn. and it went up to the supreme court, and they said, no they don't have to be redrawn before the congressional elections, and so a bad map was in place for the voters not feeling they have enough representation. and the supreme court said those maps are wrong, and you have to go back to redraw those congressional maps, and this is a big win for those who want to challenge the voting map ps, because over the last several years, the supreme court has gutted many

stopping at the alabama state line.ng me now to discuss all of this is democratic congresswoman terri sewell, the lady from alabama. welcome, congresswoman. let's start with the trump indictment. you're someone that sits on the armed services committee, he received classified briefings, you are well versed on some of the most sensitive conversations happening at the highest levels of our country. what was your reaction to the extent of the defense argument that the former president possessed? >> well, these allegations, symone, are serious. no one is above the law, our president is not above the law. or any former president above the law. this is really important not only to make to the rule of law, but especially torrential security. as you stated, i was formally on the intelligence committee, the house intel committee for eight years. and privy to the same briefing of the president get on a daily basis, i can't tell you that the allegations against former president trump are very serious. and if, true he's definitely

, the case was about alabama's black belt, a region in alabama that is extremely poon in alabama thathe court found not only that the court found not only that black voters were discriminated against, but it is a historical and significant when that will reverberate for years. when that will reverberate for ears. . ., ., , , when that will reverberate for ears. . ., ., , years. election law experts are callin: it years. election law experts are calling it a _ years. election law experts are calling it a surprise _ years. election law experts are calling it a surprise because i calling it a surprise because this is a core that has chipped away in recent years, so why do you think the court ruled the way it did? i think the court ruled this way because in alabama it is sort of undeniable what happened. there is this region of alabama called the blackbelt that was divided into four congressional districts when it is very clear that it districts when it is very clear thatitis districts when it is very clear that it is possible to divide it into only two districts in which lack voters woul

we know some of them ended up in northern parts of alabama. the mayors kept quite a few themselves and it was a few dozen, 30, 35 who started this community that became known as africa town after the civil war. >> let's talk about africa town. i've always bn fascinated with the stories because i've heard it myself for quite a long time before it became part of what we are discussing now and what new things did you learn? i know there's a lot of folklore that i've heard through the years and then in reading your book i saw that you dug down deep and talked to a lot of people about africa town and the influences looking at the historical. so after doing your research, can you reveal something new about it, does this book reveal something new about him that we don't already know? >> i found scraps of news coverage from the turn of c the 20th century that i hadn't found mentioned in any other books. one interview for instance where he and the other shipmates said that they actually saved enough money right after the civil war to go back topt the s

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cbs's mark strassmann will start us off tonight from alabama, where he is surveying the damage.od evening, norah. a half dozen reported tornadoes made for an unnerving few hours of weather across the south this afternoon, and toppled the side of this alabama business. tonight, recovery from several tornadoes that tore across alabama and georgia today. >> look at this stuff. >> reporter: a severe weather outbreak pummeling states from north to south, in abbeville alabama, he reported large tornado cut through damaging a y eufaula fared worse. a twister downing trees and power lines. >> boom, boom, boom boom boom. >> norah: and damaging brittany schade's apartment building. speak i was very scared, my heart was beating real fast. i ran in the room to get my little girl. i kept calling her name, she wouldn't wake up, come on, tornado out here. >> reporter: the storm is part of a late-season system throughout the no -- record rainfall to the reason. baseball-size hail in texas. top triple digits for much of the next week. the severe weather is hardly over. in southeast georgia, a to

alabama as fox's griff jenkins reports, alabama lawmakers must now redo their congressional districts. a supreme court surprise chief justice john roberts and justice brett kavanaugh sided with the court's three liberals to force alabama to throw out its congressional district map and start over, saying the gop state legislature dilutes black voting power across several majority white districts. alabama's only black member of congress watched the case play out in october at the supreme court representing matters. and this is a case about fair representation. african americans in alabama are 27% of the population, and yet we have only one of the seven seats. it's simply not fair. part of the surprise is that chief justice roberts, who has famously opposed race based solutions for voting, wrote this ruling and said while the opinion thursday upholding section two of the voting rights act does not diminish his concerns, alabama's understanding of section two would require abandoning four decades of the court's section two precedents. it's clear that the alabama legislature engaged in rac

black voters. >> the alabama legislature engaged in race-based gerrymandering.nd they're not the only ones throughout the country who have done that, and we can at least draw some comfort from the fact that the 1965 voting rights act remains alive. >> the ruling means alabama will have to draw a new congressional map for next year's elections. >>> overseas now, we are learning more about the suspect who attacked young children with a knife. the victims range in age from 1 they're being treated at a hospital at this hour. charlie d'agata has the latest and, of course, we want to warn you that some of the details are graphic. >> reporter: harrowing cell phone footage shows the alleged attacker roaming around the children's playground, knife in hand. what happens next is too distressing to show. stros.eggetingby he was heard shouting "in e s c" four children are in the hospital, all under 3 years old, suffering from life-threatening injuries, police say. two adults were also wounded. "all of a sudden a lady says run, run, there's a guy who is stabbing everybody," s

some white ministers from alabama taken issue with the boycotts. they told them, dr. king, slow down. we're supporting. we're for voting rights, too. but slow down. don't move too fast. don't demand too much all at once. dr. king rejected that premise. it's up to all of us as citizens, as leaders, as members, our churches in our communities to get work, to demand justice. equality? not at some, not, madam. presidents. some has a far off point. the future that never seems to get here. dr. king made that point more eloquently in persuasively than any of us ever could. so i'll turn to my colleague, reverend senator warnock. thank you very much, madam president. this the junior senator from georgia. thank you so much. i'm deeply honored to participate. this great tradition started, senator doug jones of alabama during his tenure carried out by my colleague, senator brown. and i'm always honored to revisit these words from dr. king, from the letter from a birmingham jail. so without delay, my dear fellow clergymen, we while confined here in the birmingham city jail, i came

that had a majority of black voters, even though more than 1 in 4 alabama residents are black. it's a decision experts say will have immediate consequences. the cook political report, which handicaps elections, changed its ratings for five house races, moving each one towards the democrats in his opinion. for the court, chief justice roberts wrote, the voting rights act does not permit a state to provide some voters less opportunity to participate in the political process, adding that the record contained undeniable evidence of alabama's extensive history of repugnant racial and voting related discrimination. in his dissent, justice clarence thomas said roberts and the liberals have endorsed hijacking the districting process to pursue a goal that has no legitimate claim under our constitutional system, the proportional allocation of political power on the basis of race. political analysts say, with republicans enjoying only a slim majority in the house right now, this ruling could be a key factor in determining who controls the house after the 2024 election. time now for a look

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as vox's griff jenkins reports, alabama lawmakers now have some work to do. a supreme court surprise. chief justice john roberts and justice brett kavanaugh sided with the court's three liberals to force alabama to throw out its congressional district map and start over, saying the gop state legislature diluted black voting power across several majority white districts. alabama's only black member of congress watched the case play out in october at the supreme court representing matters. and this is the case about fair representation. african americans in alabama are 27% of the population and yet we have only one of the seven seats. it's simply not fair. part of the surprise is that chief justice roberts, who has famously opposed race based solutions for voting, wrote this ruling and said while the opinion thursday upholding section two of the voting rights act does not diminish his concerns, alabama was understanding of section two would require a binding for decades of the court's section two precedents. it's clear that the alabama legislature engaged in ra

the case that desegregated ole miss, universe of alabama, university of georgia. and through her work, a civil rights lawyer, she brought, us, the world that we know today, one in which racial discrimination is proscribed under law and the achievement by achievement is open to everyone, regardless of and gender. after she had litigated all of those cases changed the world for us. constance baker motley broke barriers in politics. she was the first woman elected manhattan borough president. she was the first black woman elected to the new york senate. and then after all of that, in 1966, president lyndon johnson appointed her a federal, making her the first black woman to occupy such a role. she was appointed to the u.s. district court and then and what drew me to this life. well it was because when i was researching a prior work, i came to understand that motley had not received the attention, the scholarly attention that she deserves. there had been relatively little written about her. and i thought that the absence of her story in the literature was a kind of hi

it's a neighborhood of mobile, alabama.s clark went there to talk to cleon jones about his passion for africatown. cleon jones is hometown africatown and mobile, alabama, a community that once had around 12,000 people has dwindled to 2000. what was it like growing up in africatown? the most wonderful place in the world? your neighbors were like family. when did you first become exposed to baseball? my g grandparentnts were grereat baseballll fans. we had t this big radadio show d lilisten to ththe dodgerss gamed jackie robinson got to the dodgers and we sit around like we were watching tv growing up. jones and his friends play baseball in the street or local park. i never owned the baseball glove until i was 13 years old. we had a broomstick and we had soda bottles, caps, but meager resources didn't stop. jones, a gifted athlete. he was eventually scouted. my goal was to make it to the big leagues, and he did just that. joining the new york mets and playing in the 1969 world series. there's a fly ball hit out to left waitin

reports of at least six tornados in alabama, georgia, and texas.ng this one appearing to touch down in south georgia. warnings continued in several states throughout the afternoon. >> we've got a lot of lightning strikes across the area. so, definitely stay away from those windows. >> reporter: the wall to this office in alabama, gone, now lying next to the building. while inside, debris is scattered throughout the cubicles. >> trailer started wobbling real bad, so we had to hunker down and try to ride it out. >> reporter: in louisiana, downed trees piling up and mangled power lines. heavy rain in the region not just causing a flood risk, but slowing down traffic on major highways. on this interstate in arkansas, pounding rain and damaging winds limiting visibility. tens of millions at risk for severe weather tonight from texas to florida. the damage, already done in alabama as the fast-moving storms knock down trees. hail, a concern in many states, already coming down in mississippi. and there's the potential for even more damage and destruction a

supreme court, with chief justice roberts and justice kavanaugh joining the liberals in deciding alabama's redistricting map violates the voting rights act. >>> former president trump in a familiar position, under threat of indictment as the target of a major investigation entering its final phase, over the mishandling of classified documents. >>> unhealthy skies across the northeast impacting tens of millions of americans. the dangerous air quality levels caused by canadian wildfires are causing ground stops at major airports. >>> president biden meeting with britain's fifth prime minister in the last seven years to deepen the economic ties between the two nations and reinforce the importance of continued support for ukraine against russia. >> very happy to have spent many years working, living and studying here. it's a country that believes in freedom, enterprise and opportunity. i believe in all those things, too. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in new york. the supreme court rules today on voting rights. in a surprising decision written by chief justice roberts, joined by the three li

birmingham alabama. that's another way that birmingham, everything and i want i guess i want i want us all to keep that in mind. like that's the sort of integrated future we should be striving toward. thank you, guys. the senior senator from ohio. thank you. brown presents an honor to join my colleagues of both parties on the floor today to read one of the greatest pieces of writing of the 20th century.

this is not just about alabama.ing at its own maps. >> we could see every state redraw their own maps? >> every state has to comply with the voegd act. the court is upholding its presence tent, it's a court that has overturned its president with recently memory, that's why it's a surprise. there was a time doing this would not have been a surprise, given the law is so clear, and congress made it clear how it wants the court to interpret this. >> laura jarrett, thank you so much for sticking around, we appreciate it. >>> since congress cannot and will not pass registration restricting access to guns, and since the supreme court has repeatedly upheld easy access to guns, the state of california is trying another route. governor gavin newsom is proposing a new amendment to the u.s. constitution. in an exclusive interview, the governor told jacob soboroff, so what did he say? >> reporter: the governor is understandably extremely frustrated with the fact that every week, this year alone, there's been a mass shooting in t

. >> yes, and they were holding on waiting on the decision in alabama.s you said a real quick cascading opinions coming from the supreme court to have a real and quick cascading impact on capitol hill which is where manu raja is standing by. manu, this means that a majority black district is going to be drawn in louisiana as we as we are talking about for the past couple of weeks in alabama. what does it mean on capitol hill? >> yeah, it could mean more democratic seats. we expect in aftermath that in the alabama seat, it could be filled with a democrat in the aftermath of the ruling to add one more democrat to the house delegation. we expect thats a result of the ruling, it could lead to another fight for overall control of the house. this is a very narrowly divided house of the democrats who have control and in the minority. they need to pick up net of five seats to get back to the house majority in 2024, and if it turns out that the two seats can go to the democratic column, that is going to narrow the majority further, but it does not mean that it is

alabama has a 27% black population. one of the state's seven congressional seats was a majority black district. the challenge to the map says you could have drawn a second majority black district. instead, you packed a bunch of black voters into that one district, and then you moved, dispersed other black voters into multiple districts when you could have put them all into one district, and created the second majority black district. that is a violation of section 2. the state of alabama has 2 arguments. they said "if you are going to allege that there is a violation of section two of the voting rights act you have to show that we intended to discriminate against black voters." that did not fare well with the justices, even with the conservative ones. the justices could rule on a narrower ground, but it would still set a relatively high bar for people who want to challenge congressional acts under section two of the voting rights act. host: let's talk to callers. brian is next in farmersville, ohio, republican. caller:

and the senator from alabama, mr. president, was so enraged by this, so infuriated by this, so angered by this that he's now put a blanket hold on 249 military promotions to unwind those rules, to change those rules, to force the dod to retreat and the dod to say, okay, from here on out, here's what we're going to do. we will pay for your travel for eferlz -- every single operation you can't get at your duty station except if you're a woman seeking reproductive health care. if you're a woman who is going to have an abortion we're going to discriminate against you, we're going to treat you differently than everybody else for every other purpose. and we are going to give you paid leave because we understand that it's inconvenient to have to go somewhere else from your duty station. by the way, you haven't asked to be at that duty station. we're going to give you paid leave except if you are going because of reproductive health care, in which case we're going to discriminate against women and say uniquely you do not get

supreme court today struck down republican-drawn congressional districts in alabama that civil rightscriminated against black voters. the ruling was a surprising departure from court opinions over the past decade narrowing the scope of the voting rights act. chief justice john roberts wrote the majority opinion and was joined by the three liberal justices as well as conservative justice brett kavanaugh. to help us understand the significance of all this, i'm joined by newshour's supreme court analyst marcia coyle -- and redistricting expert, david wasserman of the cook political report with amy walter. welcome to you both. marsha, we will start with you. the chief justice wrote there were legitimate concerns the voting rights act may impermissibly elevated race and the allocation of political power within the states but added our opinion today does not diminish or disregard these concerns. it simply holds a faithful application of art precedents and fair reading of the record do not bear them out here. what is the court saying with this ruling? >> i think the chief justice is saying t