Democratic leaders harshly criticized the Virginia Supreme Court Friday after it threw out a special election in which voters approved the state legislature’s plan to redraw congressional districts and fight back against President Donald Trump’s wave of partisan gerrymanders in GOP-led states.
President Donald Trump’s gerrymandering war of 2025-26 has taken several twists and turns. But Republicans now appear poised to emerge with an advantage. That reality is taking shape after last month’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling spurred a slew of southern red states to start the process of drawing new GOP-friendly maps, and after Virginia’s high […]
The NAACP filed an emergency lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Tennessee’s new congressional gerrymander, arguing the GOP’s rushed effort to dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district was not only racist but outright illegal under Tennessee law and the state constitution.
On Thursday morning, Jeffries became the latest Trump political opponent to be threatened with prosecution.
Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas (D) — a leading architect of Virginia’s recent voter-approved congressional redistricting plan — blasted the FBI raid on her office as an act of political intimidation.
If allowed by federal courts to go into effect, the maps would immediately strip Black voters in the state of political representation in the wake of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act.
Even as the U.S. Supreme Court bludgeoned the Voting Rights Act (VRA) into a coma — still technically alive, but hardly kicking — most voters still think the landmark civil rights law is needed, new polling finds.
A federal judge declined to order the return of 2020 election ballots seized by the FBI from Fulton County — but not before heavily criticizing parts of the Justice Department’s case as “misleading” and “troubling.”
South Carolina Republicans took a major step toward redrawing the state’s congressional map in an effort that could dismantle the state’s lone Democratic district, long represented by Rep. Jim Clyburn.
The Alabama House voted Wednesday to approve a plan that would change the congressional district map during an active election, even though some votes in the May 19 primary have already been cast.