The Colorado Supreme Court killed a set of proposed ballot measures aimed at redrawing the state’s congressional map to counter GOP gerrymanders in other states, finding that they violated the state constitution.
A federal judge upheld DeSoto County, Mississippi’s local election map, which Black voters argued was drawn to suppress their political power.
America’s system of electoral redistricting has never been perfect for ensuring that maps are drawn to benefit voters, not politicians or parties. But over the past year, conservatives have radically transformed it into virtually unrecognizable terrain perhaps most closely resembling a burn scar — the term for the scorched land left behind after a wildfire. […]
Facing increasingly dire polls, President Donald Trump is determined to prevent Democrats from reclaiming the U.S. House in the 2026 midterm elections. So he’s pressuring Republican-controlled states to give the GOP an unfair edge by gerrymandering their congressional maps.
The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on mail voting is heating up. And Democracy Docket is covering it more closely than any other news outlet.
Federal judges appeared skeptical in a hearing Thursday of pro-voting groups’ arguments that Tennessee Republicans intentionally diluted Black voting power through their recent aggressive gerrymander.
Georgia Republicans’ rushed attempt to redraw the state’s political maps collapsed Wednesday before lawmakers could even begin, handing voting rights advocates an important win and exposing the political risk of the GOP’s post-Callais push to dilute Black voting power.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp got a tough lesson Wednesday just hours before the state legislature was supposed to convene for a redistricting special session he called: Life comes at you fast.
Georgia lawmakers will convene today and consider redrawing congressional and state legislative maps to favor Republicans during the 2028 election cycle, despite reluctance from some Republicans and outrage from Democrats.
Maryland’s top Democrats are reportedly preparing for a possible special session next month to put a redistricting amendment before voters in November, a move that could give the state a new path to answer the nationwide GOP gerrymandering plot pushed by President Donald Trump.
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