Independent commissions are a promising step toward reforming the redistricting process across the U.S., advocates say, while some states have shown that lawmakers are capable of passing fair maps.
One year ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the landmark Allen v. Milligan decision, upholding a provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that serves as a critical defense against racially discriminatory electoral maps.
In the harrowing days after the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in which rioters attempted to block the peaceful transfer of power, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house was photographed with a troubling symbol. Like his flag, Sam Alito has an upside down vision of democracy.
Legal experts say the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a South Carolina congressional map that federal courts deemed racially discriminatory will likely make it more difficult for voters to challenge racially gerrymandered maps.
A case challenging Arkansas’ congressional districts will go back to the district court where the court will have to apply the new standards adopted in South Carolina’s recently decided racial gerrymandering case.
Today, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that South Carolina’s congressional map is not a racial gerrymander, reversing a lower court decision that struck down the map.
When voters cast their ballots this fall in South Carolina and Louisiana, they’ll be voting with congressional maps deemed unlawful by federal courts.
The U.S Supreme Court granted requests from both the state and Black Louisiana voters and civil rights organizations to allow Louisiana’s new congressional map to remain in place while they appeal a lower court ruling that struck it down.
The nation’s most conservative federal appeals court is slated to rehear two redistricting cases, which could determine where and for whom minority voters in a Texas county can cast their ballots and whether a decadesold consent decree in Louisiana will continue.
Louisiana asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to pause a lower federal court ruling that struck down the state’s new congressional map so the state can prepare for the 2024 election season.