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Who Really Won The Midterms’ Gerrymandering War? The Answer May Come Down To A Few Races
'In coming elections now we can anticipate another round of redistricting based on the Louisiana case in 2028'…
The Supreme Court’s new decision tilting the midterms toward Republicans, explained
Here’s a familiar story. On Tuesday night, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that will almost certainly give the Republican Party an additional seat in the US House of Repre…
Canada’s redistricting model could solve the US gerrymandering death spiral
In Alabama, the Roberts Court Hands Republicans Yet Another Shocking Gerrymandering Win
By reinstating a discriminatory map, the justices are once again doing all they can to help the GOP.…
Supreme Court AGAIN Rules in Favor of Alabama's Pro-GOP Map
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 2 intervened again to confirm its previous ruling that will allow Alabama to move forward with a map eliminating racial gerrymandering.…
Supreme Court allows Alabama to use GOP-friendly congressional map
The Supreme Court handed Alabama officials a win Tuesday evening by allowing the state to use a new congressional map that could help the GOP flip a Democratic seat in the 2026 ele…
Dems Have a Voter Problem - and Gerrymandering Won't Fix It
In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those...…
The Arc of the Voting Rights Act
Louisiana Republicans erased a majority-Black congressional district.…
Measuring the Erosion of American Democracy
America needs a Gerrymandering Partisan Index. Here’s what it reveals.…
Louisiana Republicans are poised to pass new US House districts in wider redistricting fight
Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Senate is poised to pass a plan to help the GOP maintain control of the U.S. House in November…
The GOP Is Targeting Black Voters in the Former Confederacy With Surgical Precision
The GOP is moving to eliminate at least half a dozen majority Black districts in the Deep South.…
Gerrymandering as an art form: The root of our intense redistricting fight
The redistricting fights unfolding are part of a lack of trust by each party to believe the other will act fairly when power changes hands.…
Problem Solvers Caucus launches anti-gerrymandering task force
The working group will seek to address “extreme partisan gerrymandering" and will be made up of 10 lawmakers from both parties.…
Alabama asks Supreme Court to unblock GOP-friendly congressional map
Alabama filed a pair of emergency petitions to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, urging it to lift a lower court’s block of a new congressional map that could help the GOP flip a Dem…
How to escape the gerrymandering trap
Taxation without representation: The blue-state conservative’s silent scream
A republic that tolerates the systematic exclusion of a significant taxpaying minority from meaningful representation is running on borrowed legitimacy.…
DUKE: Judicial Tyranny Comes Raring Back To Defend Racial Gerrymandering
A federal court is trying to pull a judicial mulligan after the Supreme Court gave Alabama another shot at using its GOP-backed congressional map.…
Veteran Texas congressman Al Green beaten in Democratic primary runoff
Christian Menefee wins 18th district race after Republican gerrymandering carved up Green’s reliably Democratic seat Christian Menefee, a freshman Democratic US representative, bea…
Florida judge strikes down challenge to new GOP congressional map
Groups challenging the map argue the proposal violates Florida’s constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering.…
Trump-led push to redraw Congress maps faces setbacks in Southern states
State lawmakers reject a new map in South Carolina as judges strike down newly drawn US House districts one in Alabama.…
Federal court blocks ‘tainted’ GOP-drawn Alabama congressional map
A federal court blocked Republicans’ new congressional map in Alabama that was intended to give them a key pickup opportunity, teeing up an expected appeal.…
Federal Judges Try Keeping Race-Based Congressional Maps Alive Despite Supreme Court Ruling
A federal panel on Tuesday temporarily blocked Alabama Republicans' House map.…
Judges block Alabama districts that would dilute Black vote in 2026 congressional elections
A three-judge panel found that the 2023 congressional district maps adopted by Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters.…
Canadian gerrymandering is at the expense of urban voters
In Alberta, Quebec and Ontario we’ve seen cities lose out in favour of rural ridings…
How this age of extreme gerrymandering is transforming American politics
How NY Democrats STARTED the nationwide gerrymandering race
NY Democrats keep trying to rig election maps, ignoring voters and courts to boost their power.…
Some Lawmakers Want a Gerrymandering Truce
Could the current partisan redistricting frenzy lead to reform?…
Abigail Spanberger Takes Ball And Goes Home After Her Gerrymander Gambit Epically Failed
Democratic Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is telling her party members it's time to move on from redistricting.…
In Gerrymandering Fight, Democracy Is Losing
In this recent round, Republicans are entirely to blame. In the MAGA-fied GOP, winning is everything, and no quarter is given for fairness.…
Sick of gerrymandering? It’s not too late to change how America votes.
Another Line Crossed As Virginia Democrat Makes an Astonishing Threat Against a SCOVA Justice
RedState reported on the absolute panic that set in among Democrats in Virginia and in Congress afte…
The NAACP Is Proposing a Radical Shift to College Sports. Will It Work?
A bold plan to stem the gerrymandering push will require collective sacrifice.…
Supreme Court ends racial stereotype gerrymandering
After arguments regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Louisiana v. Callais last October, I wrote the likely holding striking racially gerrymandered voting districts would affe…
Is This the End of Close Elections?
Rampant gerrymandering and intense partisan sorting have shrunk the number of competitive House seats to a record-low. The political scientist Lee Drutman explains how on “The Ezra…
The Congressional Black Caucus Opposes a College Sports Bill Because of Gerrymandering
The Caucus helped stall the NCAA-backed SCORE Act after criticizing college sports leaders for staying silent on redistricting fights.…
How to End the Gerrymandering Doom Loop Forever
The political scientist Lee Drutman argues that we should switch to a system of proportional representation and put an end to our “trench warfare politics.”…
How to End the Gerrymandering Doom Loop Forever
AOC's Embarrassing Remarks on Redistricting Show Just How Hypocritical Dems Are
AOC's redistricting remarks reveal Democratic hypocrisy amid GOP gains in the South's political map battle.…
Alito Said Racism Was Over. Southern States Are Now Rushing to Revive Jim Crow.
Republicans are set to dismantle at least five majority-Black districts in the South.…
Jackson protests as Supreme Court uses Louisiana gerrymandering ruling to instruct lower courts
The Supreme Court sent a Mississippi voting rights case back to a lower court based on its Louisiana v. Callais ruling on race-based gerrymandering.…
SCOTUS Rightly Banned Race-Based Gerrymandering
Citizens should be represented in their government as individuals, rather than as members of pre-selected groups based on race or ethnicity. …
Gerrymander wars: Advantage GOP, Dems AWOL on Fauci reveal and other commentary
The court’s reversal of Virginia’s gerrymander infuriated Democrats, notes Henry Olsen at The Washington Post.…
Transcript: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Tom Suozzi on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," May 17, 2026
The following is the transcript of the interview with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Tom Suozzi, Democrat of New York, that aired on "Face the Nation with…
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick says gerrymandering is "corrosive" to "our democracy"
Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick joined Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi, the co-chairs of the House Problem Solvers Caucus, on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," saying that gerr…
CMV: Dems Shouldn’t Take This Year’s Midterms for Granted Despite Trump’s Unpopularity. I’m Not Just Talking About Gerrymandering.
King Charles visits New York after Trump says UK monarch ‘agrees with me’ on Iran – US politics live
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The Supreme Court Just Greenlit a Gerrymander That Even a Trump Judge Thought Was Too Racist
The Supreme Court weighed in via its shadow docket.…
How Republican Florida Redistricting Map Could Backfire on Trump
By aggressively targeting Democratic-held districts, Republicans may have weakened some of their own safest seats.…
JONATHAN TURLEY: Virginia’s 'Lobster' district is a gerrymandered Godzilla
Virginia's new congressional map faces legal challenges as critics compare the 100-mile-long 7th District to a lobster-shaped gerrymander monster.…
DeSantis calls back lawmakers for Florida redistricting effort
Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has called lawmakers back to Tallahassee, where they could redraw the state's congressional maps to be even more favorable for the GOP.…