Tim Miller

But in some places, they're not going to be able to.

And in Tennessee, they've fully rigged the system.

And there is no other way to describe what is happening in Tennessee other than...

then you know black voters have been completely disenfranchised people of memphis and the people of nashville have taxation without representation at all and they've carved up the state and the two biggest cities of the state will not have representatives that reflect you know their their values or the agenda that they want to push you know there's a district now the new district that they've carved up is a third of memphis and it goes all the way to ex-urban nashville

That's the only way that they could carve it up, the state, to make sure that there's no representation for Democrats and no representation for Black people in a state, as you mentioned, in the South, the birthplace of the Klan.

And it's like, I don't know how you deal with that, right?

Because...

You can really say legitimately that voters in Tennessee potentially are going to be in such a system where it's rigged to such a degree that they don't have the franchise.

They can't use the normal democratic process to fix the system.

In the whole country, there are other places where we can, but I don't know how you can argue that it's possible in Tennessee if this is upheld by the court.

Yeah, I realized as I was saying that, I feel like I don't want to demoralize my Tennessee listeners because, but, you know, just the reality is reality.

Well, it's already been kind of a bleak show, so I'm sorry to do this to you.

I have some more bad news on the breaking news front.

The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned the redistricting map that was passed by the voters of Virginia on technical grounds.

This is just happening right now, so I obviously haven't had a chance to dig into the ruling.

You wrote about this in Virginia Post.

voters were purposefully disenfranchising Republicans, but it was part of this effort, the broader fight, to kind of fight fire with fire here and hopefully lead to a better result.

I think that the political position for the president is so bad right now that I'm not sure that this ruling will have an impact on what happens to the House of Representatives, really.

It should be helpful because there's a new report last night that Justice John Roberts...

It has been bemoaning privately that Americans just don't understand how the Supreme Court operates.