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A circuit court judge ruled Thursday to uphold the Missouri GOP’s gerrymandered congressional map in a case challenging its legality — but it remains unclear whether the map will actually be used in the 2026 midterm elections.
A Republican-aligned political group is targeting Black voters in Virginia with a manipulative mailer that compares the state’s upcoming redistricting special election to the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow-era voting restrictions.
A surprise retirement from the Wisconsin Supreme Court could reshape the future of voting rights and redistricting in one of the nation’s most closely divided swing states — and potentially give liberals an opportunity to expand their majority on the court.
In an eleventh-hour maneuver, Utah Republicans closed out the state legislative session by passing a measure aimed at making it more difficult for voters to remove their signatures from a petition supporting a ballot initiative to legalize partisan gerrymanders.
A Republican attorney who played a key role in President Donald Trump’s unprecedented mid-decade Texas gerrymander last year is now the GOP nominee to represent one of the very congressional districts he helped redraw.
Despite weeks of confusion caused by the GOP’s attempts to block the vote, Virginians will head to the polls Friday for the first day of early voting on a redistricting referendum. If passed, it could send a blue wave through the state.
“Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, but right now they are under threat,” Obama said.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled, for the second time, that voters can decide whether the state can redraw its congressional map — clearing the way for a referendum that, if successful, could help counter GOP gerrymanders nationwide.
Utah Republicans working to repeal the state’s ban on partisan gerrymandering have ostensibly gathered enough signatures to put their measure on the November ballot, but it’s still too soon to know whether that will actually happen.
In a blow to voting rights, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday temporarily blocked a New York court order that required the state to redraw its 11th Congressional District.
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