With less than two weeks until his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill for a meeting with Republican Senators. There is disagreement on the best way to pass his agenda through the narrowly divided Congress. Blake Zeff, Sami Sage, John Avlon and Andrew Desiderio join Stephanie Ruhle.
This article is the fourth in a six-part MSNBC Daily series, “Meet the Freshmen,” featuring six of Congress’ newest faces — three Republicans and three Democrats — in a series of diverse columns that explore the new members’ backstories, policies, home districts and where they fit in this historic political moment. You can read the rest of the series here. Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Ala.
In 2017, a federal court concluded the Alabama Legislature had illegally gerrymandered precincts by race, triggering the redrawing of 12 local districts afterward. And yet, after the 2020 census showed the state’s Black population had grown over the prior decade, the Legislature yet again crafted a map with a single majority-Black district. At least three different federal lawsuits followed, all alleging racial discrimination in voting.
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