Democrats in Virginia today ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after the state Supreme Court struck down a voter-approved congressional map.

Meantime, President Trump says he wants to suspend the federal gas tax as Americans continue grappling with rising prices at the pump.

To discuss that and more, we turn now to our Politics Monday duo.

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

It's always great to see you both.

So, as I said, Democrats this afternoon filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court

trying to halt this redistricting decision by Virginia's top court.

And as we came on the air, the Supreme Court basically cleared

the way for Alabama to pursue new maps after the court gutted the Voting Rights Act. So, Amy,

at this point, is the playing field meaningfully tilted toward Republicans? Are Democrats still

benefiting from the political environment? Right. Well, I think that's the best way to think about this.

From a structural standpoint, and by structural meaning, how many seats were redistricted

to help one side or the other, Republicans have an advantage.

Before the Supreme Court in Virginia and before the Supreme Court of the United States came out with

their decisions, we had talked back and forth for a while about how it was basically a wash.

Now it looks as if Republicans are going to come out on top structurally. By how many seats,

we don't know yet. We're still waiting for a number of other legal decisions. But Republicans

could get as many

as six or seven seats total just through the redistricting process. But the structural is going to

meet up with the environmental. And so I think about this a little bit like somebody who is

preparing for a big flood. And so they put sandbags in front of their property

knowing that a big storm is going to come in. In this case, the storm looks bigger than the

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