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With less than 60 days until Election Day, the fight against President Donald Trump’s crusade to restrict voting is reaching a defining moment.
Missouri Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny voters a voice and restore the GOP’s congressional gerrymander for the midterms.
Missouri Republicans filed a new federal lawsuit Friday night aimed at reviving the state’s congressional gerrymander for the midterms.
Texas and Missouri are serving up opposite arguments about the impacts of swapping election maps between their primaries and the midterms, but whether that’s allowable or a constitutional crisis depends on which state you’re in and whether Republicans will benefit.
In a win for voters, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled that a constitutional amendment on redistricting proposed by state Democrats can appear on the ballot in November.
The Missouri Supreme Court greenlit a citizen-led redistricting referendum for this year’s November ballot — marking the end of a grueling, nearly year-long battle by voters to have the final say over a gerrymandered congressional map drawn up at President Donald Trump’s request.
Nearly one year after Missouri Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map at President Donald Trump’s request, voters’ long-running fight to block the gerrymander faces its final battle at the state Supreme Court.
The Maryland Supreme Court will hear both redistricting cases on Sept. 3.
A Maryland judge also paused his order blocking the amendment pending a likely appeal, and ultimately, a ruling from the Maryland Supreme Court.
Black voters’ 2023 victory blocking Georgia’s congressional and state legislative maps proved fleeting after the 11th Circuit sent the case back to a lower court to be reconsidered in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision gutting the Voting Rights Act provisions guaranteeing political representation for minority voters.
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