Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

So glad to have you with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch.

Hope all the moms had a fantastic Mother's Day.

And I hope you treated your mom well yesterday.

She certainly deserves it. Thanks to Craig Collins for filling in for me Thursday and Friday.

Jim is now away and in his place today is Craig Collins, the most versatile man in podcasting.

Amen.

We're both hats here as Jim is away. Craig is a host a show on KS.EV in Houston, Texas every day. And so,

Craig, great to have you with us again. Thank you. I will try to do as many pop culture references

as I can today. You're wearing the mantle well already. So you know, you and Jim on Friday

talked about the breaking news at that time of the Virginia Supreme Court ruling 4 to 3 that no, the Democrats in Virginia did not go about the process in the right way.

This referendum cannot go forward.

The new map cannot go forward.

And so for at least a couple of years, they got to stick to the 6 to 5 map that favors Democrats, not the 10 to 1-1 that they were trying to

ram through for the sake of fairness, Craig.

And so now, of course, as a result of that and the Supreme Court decision that's allowing

some other states to quickly redraw maps, including Florida and Louisiana, the Democrats

are suddenly no longer in the driver's seat in the redistricting war,

but they're not done fighting yet.

They think that they can still get their map to go forward,

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