SCOTUS sparks redistricting frenzy

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The Supreme Court set off a redistricting frenzy with the release of its decision on Wednesday to defang Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Anna and Jake discuss what it means for the midterms and beyond. Plus, the latest on FISA, funding for the Department of Homeland Security and what happened on the House floor late Wednesday night. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube⁠. ⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways⁠⁠ ⁠⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at ⁠punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.4	Presented by AI Progress. Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.
0:26.3	And I'm Jake Sherman.
0:27.3	And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchpool News.
0:29.8	It's Thursday, April 30th, 2026.
0:32.4	Let's get into the mix.
0:33.1	Here are your Washington headlines of the day.
0:35.1	Number one, the SCOTUS ruling sets off even more redistricting madness.
0:38.9	Number two, Thune rejects Johnson's FISA deal. What's next? And number three, tech and a human connection.
0:45.1	What we learned last night. All right, Jake, let's get into it. We lead off this morning's newsletter with a look at how the Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act is not just
0:57.5	going to impact what happens in the midterms, but how this is really setting the stage for
1:03.9	even more redistricting wars going into 2028. Yes. And you'll see Anna, my bookshelf is really
1:10.3	coming together, huh? Oh, oh, I didn't even, you know, it's so early in the morning. You actually have some stuff behind you. A punch bowl. I do. There's going to be doors here. That's not finished yet. This is various office supplies and goods. You could see, yes, a punch bowl is behind me, some capitals, some books.
1:29.4	Decor by Jake Sherman, who knew.
1:33.1	Well. Don't leave your J job.
1:35.9	Trust me. Well, maybe I should, but no, the decor is definitely by me.
1:43.3	We've been waiting for a ruling in this voting rights act case for a very long time.
1:49.6	We joke every morning, every day, every time we hear a Supreme Court decision date,
1:54.3	are we going to get this or are we going to get coordinated limits?
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