With Texas set to begin a special session that includes drawing a new congressional map next week, national Democrats say they’re exploring ways to stop the Republican plan.
Days after saying it needed to redistrict because of constitutional concerns raised about its congressional map by the U.S. Department of Justice, Texas argued in a new court filing Saturday that those concerns are in fact off base.
Texas said it plans to redraw its congressional map, citing a claim by the U.S. Department of Justice that the current map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. But the state lawmaker who drew those maps said just last month that she didn’t consider race in the process.
Native American voters in North Dakota are preparing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after the federal appeals court ruled that private individuals cannot bring lawsuits under Section 2 — the part of the Voting Rights Act that bars racially discriminatory voting laws.
The Texas Legislature will redraw its congressional maps beginning this summer, after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced he added mid-decade redistricting to the state’s upcoming special session agenda.
Officials in one of Texas’ largest counties voted Tuesday to hire a national right-wing law firm to defend its own gerrymandered map, which was produced by the firm and approved by Republicans last month.
In a surprise move, the U.S. Supreme Court postponed until next term a decision in a high-stakes Louisiana redistricting case that could have major implications for the future of the Voting Rights Act.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to take a case brought by a group of voters who claimed the state’s congressional map is the result of years of GOP gerrymandering and asked the court to order a new map for the 2026 election.
Alabama is again appealing its long-running redistricting battle to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A group of minority voters in Tarrant County, Texas filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday accusing local Republicans of racial gerrymandering, a day after GOP leaders approved a new map designed to shrink the voting power of Black and brown residents.