Badlands Daily: 5/1/26 - Redistricting Chaos, 17th Amendment, DeLauro Embarrasses Herself
CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday discussion show that earns its runtime. Louisiana delays its house primaries after the Calais decision while Rep. Cleo Fields cries that "people have already voted," which is hilarious given the Virginia Democrats argued the opposite in their own Supreme Court hearing. CannCon and Chris dig into the downstream constitutional implications of ungerrymandering, including whether a GOP-dominant state legislature landscape creates the runway to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, restore state election of senators, and drain money from senate…
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