“Full scale panic!” Supreme Courts drop NIGHTMARE news for Trump

The Utah Supreme Court rejected Republican attempts to overturn a state court's redrawing of the electoral map. This decision prevents the fracturing of the Salt Lake City area into four districts, instead mandating a Salt Lake City-centric district, which is expected to elect a Democrat. Republicans had exhausted state-level appeals and are now considering a federal appeal, which the guest believes is unlikely to succeed.

Republicans went all the way to the Utah Supreme Court to try to undo that state court's redrawing of the Utah map. As you recall, Republicans in that state fractured the Salt Lake City area into, I think, four different districts. And a state court said, 'Nope, you can't do that. You got to draw a district that is Salt Lake uh city centric.' ... the Supreme Court slammed the door on the last effort that Republicans will have to try to get the state supreme court to overturn that.

The Virginia Supreme Court once again ruled against Republican efforts to block a ballot initiative aimed at redrawing the state's electoral map. This initiative is projected to add four new districts favorable to Democrats. Despite a lower court in Tazwell County granting Republicans preliminary relief, the state Supreme Court is expected to overturn it, having previously indicated its support for the initiative.

In Virginia, you know, after they Republicans tried to block the Virginia legislature from moving forward with uh a ballot initiative there to redraw the map that would add another four districts for Democrats. They got a a trial court in a very conservative county, Caswell County, uh to say that uh that map would be uh that effort would be stalled. The state supreme court said, 'Nope, not doing that.' ... that case will also now go up to the Virginia Supreme Court and we will see what it does. But my prediction, state supreme court has already said it wants this ballot initiative to go forward once and it's going to say that again.

A decision is imminent from the U.S. Supreme Court in the *Klay* case, which concerns Section Two of the Voting Rights Act. The guest warns that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Republicans, it could entirely gut Section Two, allowing Republican-controlled states (especially in the South and West) to redraw maps that 'obliterate minority voting rights.' This outcome would be a 'catastrophe for democracy' and could trigger a new round of gerrymandering, fundamentally impacting future elections.

We may very well be days, hours, weeks away from a decision from the Supreme Court uh in the Cala case. And that is that is section two of the Voting Rights Act. ... if the Trump administration, if Republicans are able to convince the Supreme Court to gut in its entirety, overturn in its entirety section two of the Voting Rights Act, then it will allow Republican states predominantly in the South, but also in the in the West to redraw their maps and and really just obliterate uh minority voting rights. And it will be a catastrophe for democracy.