Black voters in Alabama urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to reject the state’s emergency request to use a congressional map with only one majority-Black district in the midterms — a move they warn would reward Alabama for trying to revive a map that lower courts have repeatedly found unlawful and discriminatory.
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, Trump’s pick for governor, has an elaborate plan for restricting the state’s voting rights.
We got some ominous news this week about President Donald Trump’s dangerous bid to crack down on mail voting ahead of the midterm elections.
This is how the Voting Rights Act died: not in a fair fight, but in a case engineered to produce a predetermined result.
The Louisiana Senate voted 28-10 to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional seats Friday, sending the remapping bill to Gov. Jeff Landry (R) for signing.
Alabama will lose one of its majority-Black legislative state senate seats in a racially gerrymandered map just approved by a federal appeals court.
The Louisiana House voted 66-35 to eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black congressional seats.
Louisiana suspended an ongoing congressional election to draft and enact a new electoral map eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black districts barely a month after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out its old one in Callais v. Louisiana. But that’s neither fast enough or far enough for the “non-African American” plaintiffs in Callais.
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to let it use racially gerrymandered maps that courts have found were drawn with intentional racial discrimination.
Rep. Chip Roy’s loss emphasizes Trump’s continued sway over the GOP and his willingness to exact revenge against Republicans who defy him.