It's Monday, February 7th. I'm Gideon Ressick.

And I'm Josie Duffy-Race, and this is What A Day, where everything we scripted for today

was ripped up by former president Donald Trump.

Yes, this man never met a piece of paper that he did not rip. It is actually insane.

And his defense-beaded pronoun are only copy and express mail to my logo.

Whoops. On today's show, protests in Minneapolis follow the police shooting of a mere lock,

plus Southwest is about to start pouring it up again on flights.

But first, on Friday, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that Republican drawn

congressional and state legislative maps constituted partisan gerrymanders that violate the state's

constitution. The proposed maps had basically granted Republicans control of at least 10 of the

14 House seats in North Carolina despite the fact that the state is often one of the closest

in presidential contests and voters are effectively split 50-50 across the state.

Per Friday's ruling, the legislature will now be required to draw new maps and submit them to

a lower court within two weeks. This is just the latest example of courts recently acting as a

line of defense against attempts at a gregious partisan gerrymanders. A similar situation played

out in Ohio last month and in Alabama, federal judges said that a proposed Republican drawn

map needed to be redrawn because only one of the state's congressional districts had a majority

of black voters. Alabama has since appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yeah, and during this round of redrawing, the new maps have created less competitive districts

by far, which for innumerable reasons makes our democracy even less functional. If your re-election

is effectively guaranteed, how can you ever be accountable to your constituents, for example?

To put a number to it, of the 269 congressional districts whose maps have been completed so far,

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