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Phil Weiser: “Extreme partisan gerrymandering violates the federal…”

Featuring: Phil Weiser, Democratic | Attorney General of Colorado

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Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado

Published | Video Starts at 02:41

We did that. The Supreme Court, by the way, could have made that the law of the land. I pushed hard in this case to say the Supreme Court Extreme partisan gerrymandering violates the federal constitution. And that was actually North Carolina. They were going to district fairly because they believed it was a constitutional requirement. Once the court said, no, it isn't. (02:41–02:46)

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Asserts that extreme partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional.

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