The redistricting wars explode with a major Supreme Court update, and I've got three interviews,

Robert Garcia, Tommy Vitor, and the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics,

Kyle Condick.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

The Supreme Court has finally dropped their Calais decision, effectively gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,

which means that the legal protections for black majority districts are now gone. So in a state like

South Carolina, for example, where Republicans are in charge everywhere, the congressional delegation

is seven Republicans and one Democrat. That Democrat is Jim Clyburn. And his district is protected

under the Voting

Rights Act. Well, now that it's struck down, Republicans in South Carolina can draw him out of

that district and just do an eight-to-nothing gerrymander, all Republicans. And they can do that in states

across the country, leading to anywhere from one to two dozen seats flipping from blue to red.

That's a big hit that Democrats are going to

have to contend with, especially when you add in these mid-cycle redraws. Florida's passing

their gerrymandered map right now. And of course, the census in 2030 is going to transfer somewhere

around a dozen electoral votes from blue states like California and New York to red states like

Texas and Idaho.

So it's grim, especially over the next few years.

But if there was ever an impetus to fight, this is it.

And in fact, AOC put it perfectly when she said this.

Should New York respond in kind by doing its own redistricting once the amendment,

if the amendment passes of? i have long felt that we all

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