Today in One Sentence. Chief Justice John Roberts claimed that Supreme Court justices aren’t “political actors” and that the court isn’t a political institution Tennessee Republicans enacted a new congressional map that breaks up majority-Black Memphis, likely eliminating the state’s only Democratic House seat Trump called for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to be charged with “INCITING VIOLENCE,” in an attempt to link Jeffries’ “maximum warfare” language about redistricting to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting a federal judge let the Justice Department keep more than 600 boxes of 2020 election ballots and records seized from Fulton County, Georgia, despite finding flaws in the FBI warrant the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump’s 10% tariff on most imports was illegal and 80% of Americans support age caps for members of Congress.

1/ Chief Justice John Roberts claimed that Supreme Court justices aren’t “political actors” and that the court isn’t a political institution. The defense comes a week after the court’s 6-3 conservative majority narrowed the Voting Rights Act’s protection for majority-Black congressional districts, opening the door for Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps. Since then Florida has enacted a new map that could add four more Republican House seats in November’s midterm election, while Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina are all moving to redraw their maps targeting Democratic districts. While Roberts didn’t address that ruling, he insisted that the court is “not simply part of the political process” and doesn’t make “policy decisions,” rather they just decide “what the law provides.” He called “considered criticism” fair, but warned that personal attacks on judges can become “problematic” and lead to “very serious problems.” (Politico / CNN / NBC News / Associated Press / Reuters)

2/ Tennessee Republicans enacted a new congressional map that breaks up majority-Black Memphis, likely eliminating the state’s only Democratic House seat. Republican Gov. Bill Lee promptly signed it into law after lawmakers repealed Tennessee’s ban on mid-decade redistricting. Republicans now have a path to sweep of all nine U.S. House seats. The move follows last week’s Supreme Court ruling narrowing Voting Rights Act protections for majority-Black districts. (NBC News / Washington Post / New York Times / Associated Press / Politico / ABC News / NPR)

3/ Trump called for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to be charged with “INCITING VIOLENCE,” in an attempt to link Jeffries’ “maximum warfare” language about redistricting to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. Jeffries used the phrase at an April 22 news conference about Democratic redistricting efforts, saying Democrats wanted “a fair national map.” The phrase also echoed language from a person close to Trump, who described the White House’s political strategy as “Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.” Jeffries dismissed Trump’s post as “another deranged rant,” saying Trump was “threatening to criminally prosecute me” and asking: “What’s wrong with you, bro?” (Politico / The Hill / Daily Beast)

4/ A federal judge let the Justice Department keep more than 600 boxes of 2020 election ballots and records seized from Fulton County, Georgia, despite finding flaws in the FBI warrant. Judge J.P. Boulee called parts of the FBI warrant “troubling” and “defective,” but said the county hasn’t shown the government acted with “callous disregard.” The ruling allows the investigation into alleged election “irregularities” to continue. Georgia counted its 2020 presidential vote three times, each confirming Biden’s win. The Justice Department is separately seeking personal information on 2020 election workers. (New York Times / Bloomberg / Washington Post / CNN / NBC News / ABC News / Politico / Associated Press / Reuters)

5/ The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump’s 10% tariff on most imports was illegal and that he exceeded his authority under the Trade Act of 1974. The court said Section 122 didn’t allow Trump to treat trade deficits as “balance-of-payments deficits,” the legal criteria he cited after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier tariffs. The court for now only immediately blocked the administration from enforcing the tariffs against the two companies that sued and Washington state, making clear that it was not issuing a so-called “universal injunction.” The ruling limits enforcement against the two companies and Washington state that sued, stopping short of a nationwide injunction. (Associated Press / Bloomberg / Reuters / New York Times / CBS News / Politico / ABC News)

poll/ 80% of Americans support age caps for members of Congress. 83% support term limits for members of Congress. (NPR)

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