Yunior is a breaking news reporter from Brooklyn, New York. He earned his master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where he specialized in local news and data reporting. He is passionate about civic education and engagement.
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Illinois lawmakers were forced to shelve a proposed ballot measure that would have given voters a chance to strengthen redistricting protections in their state.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Federal agents raided the office of Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas — one of the most powerful Democrats in the state and a leading force behind Virginia’s newly approved congressional redistricting plan.
Several Republican Indiana state senators targeted by President Donald Trump after opposing a mid-decade congressional gerrymander lost their primaries, signaling that resistance to Trump’s agenda inside the GOP still carries some political risk.
Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague won the Republican primary for secretary of state, defeating Marcell Strbich — a far-right activist backed by election denier and Trump ally Cleta Mitchell.
Democratic lawmakers, civil rights leaders and protesters converged on the Tennessee State Capitol as Republicans began work to enact a new congressional gerrymander just days after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act decision — a move voting advocates say would dismantle Black voting power.
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