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The Alabama House voted Wednesday to approve a plan that would change the congressional district map during an active election, even though some votes in the May 19 primary have already been cast.
Federal agents raided the office of Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas — one of the most powerful Democrats in the state and a leading force behind Virginia’s newly approved congressional redistricting plan.
The U.S. Supreme Court shot down a request Wednesday to reconsider fast-tracking the order implementing its decision in Louisiana v. Callais, the case that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Alabama has asked a federal court to allow it to return to a 2023 congressional map that courts previously deemed an illegal racial gerrymander.
Several Republican Indiana state senators targeted by President Donald Trump after opposing a mid-decade congressional gerrymander lost their primaries, signaling that resistance to Trump’s agenda inside the GOP still carries some political risk.
Democratic lawmakers, civil rights leaders and protesters converged on the Tennessee State Capitol as Republicans began work to enact a new congressional gerrymander just days after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act decision — a move voting advocates say would dismantle Black voting power.
The Black voters who successfully sued Louisiana to redraw its congressional map to add another majority-minority district in 2023 — only to have that redraw struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in last week’s Louisiana v. Callais decision — are now asking the Court to recall its quick order Monday clearing the way for a rushed redistricting during a paused primary election.
Roughly 42,000 voters cast ballots in Louisiana’s elections when Gov. Jeff Landry’s (R) suspension of congressional primaries went into effect, according to recent early voting data published by state officials.
Alabama lawmakers took initial votes Tuesday giving the greenlight to legislation that would change congressional and state senate district maps in primary elections that are already underway.
The lead plaintiff in the case that destroyed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) has a history of promoting false election conspiracies and anti-voting policies, and was at the Stop the Steal protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, before a deadly riot by pro-Trump insurrectionists.