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In red states across the country, GOP lawmakers and officials took a range of steps to move forward with their gerrymanders. Together, the moves suggest that, even leaving the Supreme Court aside, Republicans have abandoned any remaining political or moral qualms about drawing maps that maximize their advantage — with potentially dire consequences for the future of fair elections.
A panel of three federal judges will soon decide whether to block Texas from using its new congressional map in the 2026 election, after a contentious nine-day hearing concluded Friday.
In federal court Thursday, information about Texas’ secretive redistricting process started to come into focus as Republican leadership testified.
The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.
The Republican Party’s leading mapmaker took the stand Tuesday in a federal hearing to determine whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in the 2026 election.
A top Texas Republican revealed in federal court Monday he didn’t tell legislators about a phone call with the national GOP operative who drew the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map.
This week, a federal court in El Paso, Texas has been hearing a case that could determine who controls Congress after next year’s elections. And Democracy Docket has been one of the very few national news outlets to cover it.
Texas Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the urging of President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice, aiming to eliminate some majority minority districts with a plan that’s now under scrutiny in federal court in El Paso.
A Texas Democratic lawmaker told a federal court Friday that the state’s gerrymander was spurred by a U.S. Department of Justice letter urging Republicans to target districts with minority representatives.
EL PASO, TEXAS — A Texas Democrat testified in federal court Thursday that Republican leadership used minority communities as pawns when they redrew the state’s congressional map this summer at the request of President Donald Trump. State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) told the court the latest Texas redistricting process was a bad faith, secretive effort […]