President Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas starting Wednesday, as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) Friday rejected a referendum petition aimed at overturning the GOP’s extreme gerrymander — escalating the state’s power grab into an outright attack on Missourians’ constitutional rights. The pro-voting coalition People Not Politicians filed the referendum with the Secretary of State earlier this month to give voters the chance to […]
For decades, the Department of Justice (DOJ) relied on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) to foil and forestall attempts to racially gerrymander.
On Wednesday, the DOJ filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to devastate and vitiate much of what’s left of the landmark civil rights legislation.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in a redistricting case, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should significantly weaken the power of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to block racial gerrymanders.
Texas Republicans are officially renouncing the rationale they used to justify their mid-decade redistricting effort, as they get ready to defend their new gerrymander in court.
Ohio’s redistricting process kicked off Monday, as lawmakers held their first public hearing. But with no map yet released by the majority Republican Party, voters were able to comment only on a proposal submitted by Democrats.
The plan would narrow the standard for courts to determine whether a proposed map is a partisan gerrymander.
As a redistricting war launched by President Donald Trump and the GOP continues to spread across the country, congressional Democrats offered a ceasefire deal Thursday — a new bill to ban mid-decade redraws and force states to adopt independent redistricting commissions.
The Utah Supreme Court Monday denied the state legislature’s petition to keep its gerrymandered congressional map in place for upcoming elections and ordered lawmakers to present a new map by Sept. 25.
Missourians fighting the gerrymandered congressional map passed last week by Republican state lawmakers are laying the groundwork for a ballot referendum that could give voters the power to block the map from going into effect.
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