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.
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) quest for unfettered access to state voter registration records stumbled Wednesday as a panel of federal judges at times expressed incredulity at the government’s arguments that it has a right to Michigan’s rolls.
At 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 4-3 down party lines to advance a bill to the floor that would draw out the majority-Black U.S House seat currently held by Rep. Cleo Fields (D).
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 […]
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a request Wednesday to reconsider fast-tracking the order implementing its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, the case that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
The Black voters who successfully sued Louisiana to redraw its congressional map to add another majority-minority district in 2023 — only to have that redraw struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in last week’s Louisiana v. Callais decision — are now asking the Court to recall its quick order Monday clearing the way for a rushed redistricting during a paused primary election.
Legal experts, voting rights advocates, and even the VRA’s loudest foes all agree with Justice Elena Kagan: “[I]n fact, those ‘updates’ eviscerate the law.”
In addition to the spat of GOP mid-decade gerrymanders already enacted at Trump’s urging, another four Republican states could redraw maps to gain upwards of nine House seats — that’s in addition to the nine Republicans already added thanks to redistricting in Texas, North Carolina, Missouri and Ohio.
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