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Hi, this is Andrew from Easton, Pennsylvania.

My husband and I are currently en route with our six-month-old corgi puppies who was last day of puppy training classes.

This podcast was recorded at 1241 p.m. on Friday, December 5th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but we know with these classes, that

bear will be one step closer to be a

great citizen. Oh, goodness. All right. Here's the show. Nice pun. Good luck with that. I really hope

it works out because raising a puppy is really hard. But a corgi puppy. That is next level cute. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. And I'm Domenico Montan, our senior political editor and correspondent. And it's been a busy week in the wide world of politics. So let's try to make sense of at least some of it. I want to start

with news about redistricting. It came in last night. The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing Texas to use a

gerrymandered map in next year's midterms. That's after a lower court had blocked it. Ashley,

catch us up here. Yeah. So, I mean, obviously the Texas legislature

earlier this year drew its congressional map to create five more seats that would be favorable to

Republicans. And there was, of course, a legal complaint, a lawsuit that was filed. But I mean,

one thing in the backdrop of all this is like, one, this was at Trump's urging, right?

Like, it was purely and very obvious political motivations here.

But this other thing that was sort of happening in the background is that the Department of Justice was one of the reasons that some lawmakers said they did this.

The DOJ sent a letter to Texas officials that basically urged them to dismantle minority coalition

districts. So like, you know, congressional seats that give black and Latino voters representation

in Congress. So this was one of the motivations for the legal complaint that was filed. And it was

why the court, this like three judge panel that heard this case for nine days said,

hey, you cannot do this. While partisan gerrymandering is allowed by law, having any sort of

racial motivation for redrawing maps is not cool. And so this was struck down. The new

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