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And the Supreme Court's recent decision to weaken the Voting Rights Act only makes this stuff more important and adds another wrinkle into an ever-developing story.

Amy Walter is here to break all of this down for me.

Amy is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report and a PBS political analyst that tracks all this stuff.

Amy, thank you for joining us.

I appreciate your time.

I want us to dig into redistricting, gerrymandering, all the stuff that makes people's eyes usually glaze over.

But I want to start with what we already know.

Donald Trump kicked off his redistricting fight by asking Texas Republicans to redraw maps in favor of the GOP, and they complied.

Democrats responded by drawing their own set in California.

There was a referendum in Virginia to do a similar thing, which passed the public vote, but has since been overturned by the courts.

It can be confusing to know with all that's up in the air who's exactly up or down in this redistricting war.

Amy, I was hoping you can help us with that.

Does one side currently have the advantage?

I mean, you're bringing up an important point that the gerrymandering is based on assumption and that assumption is the last big data point that these elected officials have gotten the previous election.

So I guess my question is, like, we know that it's gotten focused on short-term benefit for both parties.

We know that Republicans, particularly because of these recent court decisions, are getting a slight advantage probably heading into these midterms.

But what have we learned about how far Trump is willing to go to break or kind of push these boundaries?

And what have we learned about the GOP's willingness to follow him?

I want to ask about the Supreme Court decision in the Louisiana versus Calais case, which you mentioned earlier.

It chipped away at Voting Rights Act protections and federal law and basically gave a green light to some of these GOP redistricting efforts.