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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. It's June, so that means more Supreme Court decisions to talk about today.

Another narrow decision that avoided getting too political.

We'll talk about that as well as six states preparing for primaries tomorrow.

I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress.

I'm Kelsey Snell, I also cover Congress.

And I'm Dominican Mancero, a political editor.

So, Dominican, we're going to start with you and the Supreme Court.

Another day, another decision. This time it's a five-four decision.

The court ruled that Texas is legislative and congressional maps are not a racial gerrymander.

I hear this, I think we've been talking so much about these big gerrymander decisions that could be coming.

But this is not that?

Yeah, this is not one of the most hotly watched gerrymander cases.

That one, we already had that decision, which had to do with Maryland and Wisconsin's rules.

Because they had a little more broader implications for the rest of the country really sort of indicating that the Supreme Court didn't really want to touch gerrymandering, political gerrymandering at this point.

They have weighed in on racial gerrymandering before.

And they did that again with this case in Texas, Abbott versus Perez, Abbott is the governor there and was sued to put it to say that the districts that had been drawn, both the congressional and legislative districts.

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