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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in another partisan gerrymandering case this week, focused on one single U.S. House district in Maryland that was held for years by Republicans before Democrats gerrymandered it in their favor. Last October, the Court heard arguments in a landmark case in which all of Wisconsin's state legislative districts were found to be unlawfully gerrymandered by state Republicans. Partisan redistricting expert DAVID DALEY, author of Rat**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy', explains the differences and similarities in the two SCOTUS cases, and his assessment of whether the Justices will finally end the scourge of extreme partisan gerrymanders.\xa0 If they don't, Daley warns, this problem may not be fixed for at least another generation.\xa0 Also today: Austin's police chief finally describes the white evangelical Austin bomber as a "domestic terrorist." The GOP war on democracy and the judicial system continues: the nation's dumbest governor, Maine's Paul LePage, berates a federal court judge as an "imbecile" for allowing an Emoluments Clause lawsuit against Donald Trump to move forward. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in the state legislature appear to have given up their attempted scheme to leave voters in two vacant state legislative districts unrepresented for more than a year -- Walker finally decided to obey three court orders and state law by scheduling special elections to fill seats in Republican districts that he is terrified could flip to Democrats. Plus, Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report,' with some good news for a group of national gas pipeline protesters in Massachusetts, including the daughter of former Vice President Al Gore...