Redistricting Lawsuits Could Impact Control of Congress
If it is close enough, the outcome of redistricting litigation may be decisive in who holds the speaker’s gavel on Jan. 3, 2025.

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If it is close enough, the outcome of redistricting litigation may be decisive in who holds the speaker’s gavel on Jan. 3, 2025.
North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Legislature has never been shy about abusing its power to undermine free and fair elections.
Next term, the six conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court could gut what remains of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Given the U.S. Supreme Court’s interest in the independent state legislature theory, its partisan implications are well worth investigating.
When former President Donald Trump launched his post-election assault on democracy, he did not start with violence; he started with courts.
Now is the time for Democrats to intensify their focus on redistricting, not turn away.
Legal scholar and lawyer Nicholas Stephanopoulos answers questions about how to measure partisan fairness in redistricting.
The best way to guarantee that maps are drawn equitably is by engaging the communities who are impacted the most by unfair maps and putting the map-drawing power in the hands of independent commissions — not politicians.
A country in which party so thoroughly trumps geography is not the Republic our Framers envisioned — but the 2020 census sabotage makes clear that it’s the Republic in which we now live.
The Republican state legislators who have introduced these anti-voter bills will be the very same people who try to gerrymander themselves into power during the redistricting process this year.
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