South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette (R) — who campaigned on sharply restricting voting and was endorsed by President Donald Trump — won the GOP nomination to be the Palmetto State’s next governor.
Florida Republicans urged the state’s highest court to invalidate the state’s voter-approved ban on partisan redistricting and clear the way for the GOP’s gerrymandered congressional map this year.
Florida supreme court will expedite its consideration of a pro-voting group’s petition to block the GOP’s new gerrymandered map.
Pro-voting groups asked the Florida Supreme Court Thursday to block the state’s new GOP congressional gerrymander and let the 2026 elections move forward under the 2022 map, warning that Republican officials are trying to run out the clock before voters can get relief.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority erased all doubts about the sweeping nature of its recent voting rights jurisprudence Tuesday night with a shadow docket ruling that effectively reverses the Court’s own decision in the same matter just three years ago.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority Tuesday for a ruling that “debases the democratic process” by allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that the justices had previously found intentionally discriminated against Black voters.
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Alabama to use a congressional map found to have intentionally discriminated against Black voters.
Empire State Democrats have mapped out their plans to rewrite the state constitution to allow for a new congressional map ahead of the 2028 elections that could net the party four additional U.S. House seats.
A federal court agreed to hear arguments later this month over whether Louisiana’s newly enacted congressional map complies with the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — a proceeding that could put the state’s last remaining majority-Black congressional district in jeopardy.
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.