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As the 2026 election approaches, the GOP’s Trump-driven gerrymander campaign isn’t just unfolding in state legislatures. It’s also playing out in federal courtrooms where challenges to new congressional maps will be decided.
Alabama Republicans are pushing a new law that would let the state redo its primaries if the U.S. Supreme Court weakens protection against racial gerrymandering — a move that would open the door for politicians to throw out election results after voters have already spoken.
Earlier this month, Virginia became the tenth state to join AVID, but it lacks anything close to the sophistication of the ERIC.
Alabama is again appealing its long-running redistricting battle to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Alabama Republican lawmakers said in a pleading Wednesday they will forgo drawing a new congressional map before 2030 to prevent the state from being put under federal supervision for its voting laws.
A federal court ruled that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map violates both the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Trial begins Monday in a years-long redistricting battle that will determine Black representation in Alabama’s congressional delegation through 2030.
Including precincts in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
A federal judge ordered Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) to temporarily pause a voter purge program that targeted naturalized citizens and moved their voter registrations from active to inactive status. Voters who were sent purge letters will have their voter registration restored and be able to vote this November.
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Virginia over its voter roll maintenance program targeting noncitizen voters.
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