Trump shut down by 2 judges HE APPOINTED
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
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Two Trump-appointed judges rule against Republicans in the ongoing redistricting wars. Brian interviews Neil DeGrasse Tyson about aliens, Trump, and Obama.
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| 0:00.0 | Trump gets some bad news from two of his own judges, and I interview astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:11.4 | With the redistricting wars clearly turning into a disaster for the Democrats, the left caught not one, but two lucky breaks that will save seats in 2026. |
| 0:20.4 | So the first took place in Alabama, where a federal |
| 0:22.7 | district court blocked the state from enacting its 2023 congressional map in the midterms, |
| 0:27.0 | which they explained were intentionally discriminatory. That map would have left black voters |
| 0:31.2 | with just one seat where they form a majority, down from two. Now, interestingly, two of the three |
| 0:37.0 | judges on this panel were appointed |
| 0:38.4 | by Trump himself, and the other judge was also appointed by a Republican president. So not great |
| 0:44.1 | in some when you have even these right-wing judges who Trump himself appointed ruling against |
| 0:48.9 | Trump and Republicans. Now, the case is going to be appealed up to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 0:53.5 | This is the same court that already cleared the way for all of this to happen in the first place by gutting Section 2, the Voting Rights Act. This is a court that has fallen over itself to create different sets of rules depending on which party those rules would benefit. So if the Democrats stand to benefit, this court will bend over backwards to ensure that fair maps will always get |
| 1:11.5 | kicked to the next election cycle. And yet, if Republicans stand to benefit, it doesn't matter |
| 1:16.5 | even if voters are already casting ballots, as was the case in Louisiana. They will gladly allow |
| 1:22.2 | states to redraw maps mid-election if it means the GOP gets a leg up. So I would not be surprised if SCOTUS allows the newly redrawn maps to stand, |
| 1:31.2 | but there does exist the possibility that the court may display some basic modicum of fairness, |
| 1:37.7 | some dwindling scintilla of decency, and uphold the lower court's decision, |
| 1:43.1 | a decision handed down, again, by two Trump appointees. |
| 1:46.5 | I wish I could offer some type of prediction here one way or the other, |
| 1:49.2 | but at this point, I'm legitimately 50-50 as to what happens in this case at the Supreme Court. |
| 1:54.3 | In any event, we'll get an answer in short order. |
| 1:57.3 | The other bit of good news, Republicans in South Carolina fail to garner enough votes to redraw their maps, |
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