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Trump kicked off a nationwide race to redraw congressional districts that could determine the balance of power in Congress ...
On Monday, as part of “Closer Look’s” week-long special programming examining implications of the Voting Rights Act, host ...
Redistricting is usually only done once every ten years, following the national census. But Texas is moving ahead with their mid-decade redistricting after President Donald Trump said the GOP-led ...
Trump started a redistricting war. Only Congress can stop it.
The Supreme Court will hear a case over the creation of minority-majority congressional districts under the Voting Rights Act as states weigh redistricting.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s request to the parties in a Louisiana redistricting case could affect Alabama’s similar, long-running battle over congressional boundaries. In an order issued Friday, the ...
A group of Baton Rouge judges wants a federal court to reopen a 1986 voting rights case, arguing a new 19th JDC election map ...
The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority ...
Most notably, in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), the Republican justices held that federal courts may not hear suits ...
As recently as 2023, the high court said lower courts could intervene in "instances of intensive racial politics where the ...
The court fight could result in yet another congressional map for Louisiana and change the rules for redistricting nationwide ...
Senators Wyden and Merkley join efforts to reintroduce the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, aiming to restore and ...