Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Bullwork. I'm Tim Miller. Delighted to bring in for a little weekend help,

my oftentimes co-panelist on Deadline White House and the head of Democracy Docket, which is doing

media monitoring and commentary on what's happening in the legal news. How do you do that, Mark

Elias? How do you do Democracy Docket and cover what's happening in the legal news. How do you do that, Mark Alliance? How do you do democracy

docket and cover what's happening in the legal news while also suing every Republican under the

sun? When does rest come for you? You know, there's not a lot of rest, but I actually think in many

respects, you know, I've admired Sarah Longwell for a long time. And I think in some respects,

she and I share this in

common, which is that there is a value not only in independent media. There's a value not only in

sort of unafraid and not having both sides, but also being sort of in the fight at the same time

that you are running a media outlet, you know, is like brings a perspective. So I find, you know,

I religiously watch your podcast and listen to your podcast, but I find her focus groups really

interesting because she's like, she's not commenting from like an outsider perspective. She's

commenting from somebody who's actually talking to these voters. And so, yes, I litigate a lot of

cases. And Democracy Docket has a large staff now. But I think it helps inform kind of at least my commentary. I keep seeing new names pop up in the articles I'm reading on Democracy Docket. So that's a good sign. Go subscribe to it right now to keep up on what's happening in our fight for democracy. I wanted to grab you most pressingly on what's happening in my home state of Louisiana. We can broaden it out a little bit. I was going to say, what congressional district are you in so that I can orient myself? Not only answer the audience questions, but solve your specific problems. I'm still, I'm in the one Democratic district that will remain. I'm in the heart of New Orleans.

It's going to be very, I mean, they probably could figure out a way to draw us out of a district altogether, but it'd be pretty challenging.

So the second district is one that kind of combines outer New Orleans up to Baton Rouge.

This is the district that was added.

Actually, why don't you just tell the backstory?

I'm not the expert here. Explain what happened in Louisiana, what that second majority minority district was, how that emerged and why it's being challenged now.

Sure. So after the state of Louisiana got its new census data, it drew a new map, and it created one black opportunity district.

And as you point out, that district was also pretty sprawling, you know, less than anyone think that was a model of compactness.

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