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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 […]
A federal court began a hearing in a case here Wednesday to decide whether Texas can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterms.
At Democracy Docket, we pride ourselves on monitoring the voting and democracy landscape — and especially the right’s never-ending effort to undermine fair elections — more closely than just about anyone else.
Texas Republicans are officially renouncing the rationale they used to justify their mid-decade redistricting effort, as they get ready to defend their new gerrymander in court.
This week’s biggest story for democracy didn’t happen in a courtroom, a legislative chamber, or a government agency. It happened on a college campus in Utah.
Catch up on Democracy Docket’s reporting from this week about Trump’s plan to control elections, the GOP’s nationwide gerrymander, and DOJ’s hunt for voter fraud.
Texas state Sen. Charles Perry (R) apologized on the Senate floor after Democracy Docket reported last week on racist remarks he made about immigrants.
The 5th Circuit Friday upheld sections of a Texas voter suppression law, reversing a district court’s decision that found the provisions violated Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act. Multiple voting and civil rights organizations, Texas election officials and individual voters have challenged provisions of the state’s controversial 2021 election law, Senate Bill 1, winning […]
A Texas Republican lawmaker who last week blocked Democrats’ effort to filibuster the state’s gerrymander made disturbing comments at a 2022 legislative hearing — suggesting a way to deal with immigrants might be: “shoot, shovel and shut up.”