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A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Indiana’s student ID voting ban — a major procedural win for young voters and pro-voting advocates who say the GOP-backed law was designed to suppress student voting. In a decision issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, denied Republicans’ […]
The map gives Republicans a competitive edge in all four congressional districts.
The scheme will help Republicans usurp Proposition 4, the anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative approved by voters in 2018.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe (R) signed House Bill 1 into law, approving a Trump-ordered gerrymander made to guarantee Republicans a 7-1 advantage in the state’s U.S. House delegation.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) Friday rejected a referendum petition aimed at overturning the GOP’s extreme gerrymander — escalating the state’s power grab into an outright attack on Missourians’ constitutional rights. The pro-voting coalition People Not Politicians filed the referendum with the Secretary of State earlier this month to give voters the chance to […]
The plan would narrow the standard for courts to determine whether a proposed map is a partisan gerrymander.
Voting rights groups in North Carolina are asking a federal court to compel election-denying lawyer Cleta Mitchell to testify in their challenge to a voter suppression law they say was designed to keep young people from voting.
As a redistricting war launched by President Donald Trump and the GOP continues to spread across the country, congressional Democrats offered a ceasefire deal Thursday — a new bill to ban mid-decade redraws and force states to adopt independent redistricting commissions.
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.
Missouri voters filed a lawsuit that challenges the GOP’s new congressional map, calling it an unconstitutional gerrymander thats dismantles Kansas City’s Black Democratic representation and rigs the 2026 elections.