The Supreme Court just turbocharged the gerrymandering war. It was already to blame for unleashing it
Fair maps are not a technical issue. They are a safeguard for all our rights and a check on entrenched political interests.
Redistricting
How Democrats are fighting back after Callais
After the Supreme Court’s six Republican-appointed justices gutted the Voting Rights Act, Democrats across the country said they will respond with their own redistricting efforts and, eventually, new pro-voting laws.
With green light from Supreme Court, here’s where the GOP can gerrymander before the midterms
In addition to the spat of GOP mid-decade gerrymanders already enacted at Trump’s urging, another four Republican states could redraw maps to gain upwards of nine House seats — that’s in addition to the nine Republicans already added thanks to redistricting in Texas, North Carolina, Missouri and Ohio.
Louisiana says it will delay election so it can gerrymander, citing Supreme Court
Louisiana officials made clear Thursday that the state’s primaries will be postponed so lawmakers can draw a new congressional map in response to Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Supreme Court ruling derails 28 lawsuits defending minority voting rights, Democracy Docket research finds
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
Republicans rush to redraw electoral maps just hours after SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act
Florida was already working on a newly gerrymandered map, which passed both chambers hours after the court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais was announced Wednesday. But as the ink was still drying on the Supreme Court’s opinion, many Republicans rushed to catch up to the Sunshine State.
Florida passes GOP gerrymander, sending map to DeSantis
The Florida Senate voted 21-17 Wednesday to approve a gerrymandered map that could deliver up to four more Republican seats in Congress in the upcoming elections. The vote sends the measure to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who proposed the map and has made clear he will sign it. Litigation challenging the map, which could hand […]
Voting rights advocates, Dems slam ‘devastating’ SCOTUS ruling gutting Voting Rights Act
Voting rights advocates, Democrats and legal experts expressed horror and outrage over the Supreme Court’s decision to weaken a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, warning the ruling could make it almost impossible to challenge racial discrimination in redistricting and voting.
An hour after SCOTUS guts Voting Rights Act, Florida House passes GOP gerrymander
The Florida House of Representatives has passed a new, aggressively gerrymandered congressional map, part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) madcap dash to redistrict despite a voter-approved ban in the state constitution that prohibits partisan gerrymandering.
Supreme Court guts Voting Rights Act, greenlights GOP gerrymanders
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the landmark civil rights law that restricted racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting for more than fifty years.