Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, December 9th. I'm Andrew Weissman,

and I'm here with my co-host, Mary McCord. And Mary, once again, this is a week where it's like,

no chit-chat. Well, first, hello, Mary. Yes, hello. Good morning. No, you're right, though. We're

struggling week to week because there's so many things to talk about. And so it's tough to decide

where we can spend time focusing to give people a little bit more than they get from the nightly

news, but there's so much. Yeah, so let's just take you behind the scenes.

Mary and I do try to figure out themes and at least the topic.

And by the way, we then don't say you're going to talk about this and I'm going to talk about that.

It's like it is very, it is what it sounds like.

It is.

They call this improv.

Yes, but this week, there was so much.

But anyway, we really do try and figure out what we want to cover.

And we're going to hit some things that did hit the news.

But there are a couple things that we're going to discuss where because of the fire hose,

and in my view, intentional fire hose of information that have gone

a little bit sort of under the radar that we really want to highlight for you.

So, Mary, what is on our dance card?

Well, we will start with a emergency docket decision by the Supreme Court late last week that basically gave the go-ahead

to Texas's redistricting plan. And that was, of course, a one or two paragraph decision, but with a

slightly longer concurrence by Justice Alito and a really pretty striking dissent by Justice Kagan,

which Justice Sotomayor and Justice Jackson joined. And I think

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