Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced he is granting clemency to Tina Peters — the former election official convicted for her role in a voting system breach — cutting her sentence and making her eligible for parole as soon as next month.
“The ease of which you bend the knee to your lord and savior Donald Trump, I just don’t understand,” Rep. Heather Bauer said to her Republican colleagues. “It’s not fair to South Carolinians.”
Florida Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map violates a voter-approved state ban on partisan gerrymandering, voting advocates argued Friday, asking a court to block the state from using the map in the 2026 elections.
The move was a reversal from the governor’s previous stance at the beginning of the month, when his office specifically said that he wouldn’t call a special redistricting session.
A federal judge appeared reluctant to swiftly check President Donald Trump’s latest anti-voting executive order, suggesting at oral arguments Thursday that there’s no legal harm for the courts to remedy until the diktat is actually implemented.
By a 27-10 vote, the Senate passed a bill that would draw out the House district currently represented by Rep. Cleo Fields (D), replacing it with one far more likely to vote for a Republican.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) said the state will hold its 2026 congressional elections under its current 2021 map, even as Democrats wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether to pause a ruling that nullified the state’s voter-approved redistricting referendum.
The discussions stem from President Donald Trump’s most recent anti-voting executive order targeting mail-in voting.
The NAACP and a coalition of pro-voting groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Tennessee’s new Republican congressional gerrymander that dismantled the state’s only majority-Black district just days after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights act.
When the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state does not have to pause implementation of a pro-GOP gerrymander despite a pending challenge to the map, it sent a clear message: Republicans have the greenlight to drag their feet and deny voters a chance to weigh in on the gerrymander.
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