Virginians who have been waiting months for Republican lawmakers to reform racially gerrymandered voting districts received a wave of encouragement Tuesday former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Read moreMichigan will redraw 11 state House districts as part of a settlement with the League of Women Voters over claims of partisan gerrymandering by Republican lawmakers, a state official said Friday.
Read moreDemocrats seeking majority control in the Virginia House of Delegates should have an advantage in the fall election after a panel of federal judges on Tuesday accepted a proposal to redraw 26 voter districts.
Read moreOn the road to oral arguments this spring, the U.S. Supreme Court shot down a bid late Tuesday to preserve Virginia election districts that were found to be racially gerrymandered.
Read moreAfter sweeping away the opportunity last term to tackle partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court announced Friday it would hear new cases this spring out of Maryland and North Carolina.
Read moreThe Republican National Committee must comply with subpoenas regarding what the Ohio A. Philip Randolph Institute calls an “unconstitutional partisan gerrymander” of congressional districts in Ohio and other states, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreSaying that there is no time to waste when it comes to correcting Virginia’s gerrymandered election districts, the state and a group of voters urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday not to give Republican lawmakers a stay.
Read moreLos Angeles residents did not adequately show race was the main factor in the last round of redistricting or that the districts were redrawn to benefit the LA City Council’s current president, a Ninth Circuit panel held Monday.
Read moreA Utah county took its fight of a federal judge’s redrawing of election maps – done to remedy what the judge found as racial gerrymandering – to a 10th Circuit panel, arguing the “absurd results” included a historic takeover by Navajo Democrats in a special election.
Read moreVirginia Republicans who are trying to preserve state legislative districts that were struck down as racially discriminatory persuaded the Supreme Court to take up their appeal Tuesday.
Read moreMaryland officials must draw up a new congressional district map that isn’t tainted by partisan gerrymandering, a three-judge panel has ruled.
Read moreContesting personal liability in a case where the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that Republicans had gerrymandered state congressional districts, Senator Joe Scarnati urged the Third Circuit on Wednesday to let him off the hook on legal fees.
Read moreArmed with a cleaner version of the misshapen map that allowed Republicans to pick up 13 of Pennsylvania’s 18 seats in Congress, Democrats are poised to claim back five at midterm elections.
Read moreEight Republican congressmen from Michigan can intervene in a gerrymandering lawsuit filed by a women’s group and Democratic voters, a Sixth Circuit panel ruled Thursday.
Read moreA non-partisan group is pushing for an amendment to Virginia’s constitution in the hopes of addressing the state’s ongoing legal fight with unconstitutional gerrymandering.
Read moreA three-judge panel on Wednesday declined to throw out a gerrymandering lawsuit against Republican officials in Ohio, finding that a group of Democratic voters established legal standing to bring the challenge.
Read moreTwo political gerrymandering cases that stoked voter passions across the United States fizzled on procedural grounds Monday at the Supreme Court.
Read moreCalifornia and city of Poway must defend the state’s Voting Rights Act, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Thursday, reversing dismissal of a constitutional complaint from a former mayor of San Diego County’s “City in the Country.”
Read moreLos Angeles County will continue fighting a 2016 law that requires a randomized citizens committee to draw new voting lines, written by one if its own state senators.
Read moreFighting claims over racially gerrymandered voting districts, the Texas solicitor general told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state can’t be responsible for adopting a map that was court-drawn.
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