Prison Gerrymandering Suit Can Advance in Connecticut
The Second Circuit advanced a lawsuit Tuesday that challenges how Connecticut counts prisoners when it draws up legislative districts.
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The Fifth Circuit affirmed that Mississippi gerrymandered its State Senate District 22 to deny black citizens equal rights, in violation of the Voting Rights Act, and noted that the state “scarcely entered any evidence to the contrary.”
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Judges Find North Carolina GOP Gerrymandered Voting Maps
A panel of judges in North Carolina Tuesday struck down voting maps created by the Republican-controlled Legislature, ruling that they are unconstitutional and must be redrawn before the 2020 elections.
Read moreMississippi Voting Boundaries
The Fifth Circuit upheld the boundary lines of Senate District 22, which were redrawn after a district court found a violation of the Voting Rights Act. The voting district, as it was previously drawn, diluted African American “voting strength.” The redrawn map will be used in the state’s primary election Tuesday, August 6.
Read moreLengthy North Carolina Gerrymandering Trial Wraps Up
Friday’s windup of a lengthy partisan gerrymandering trial in North Carolina leaves the future of legislative district lines in limbo following two weeks of conflicting testimony.
Read moreJudges Scrap Republicans’ Expert in NC Gerrymandering Trial
Flaws in an expert’s math found during North Carolina’s gerrymandering trial Thursday prompted a three-judge-panel in Raleigh to scrap analysis a witness for Republican lawmakers presented.
Read moreRepublican Lawmakers Challenge Claims of Bias in NC Gerrymandering Case
Witnesses for North Carolina GOP lawmakers on Wednesday said democracy advocates’ experts misused numbers during testimony in the case to determine if Republicans violated the state’s constitution by unfairly gerrymandering state political districts in their party’s favor.
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GOP’s Expert Calls Rival Data Flawed in North Carolina Gerrymander Trial
An expert for Republican legislators accused of unfairly dividing North Carolina House and Senate voting districts to secure a GOP majority blamed opposing witnesses for bias in map simulations during proceedings Tuesday.
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Expert Witness Claims North Carolina Voting Maps Intentionally Gerrymandered
Billions of possible maps randomly sketched out by a computer show that political mapmakers intentionally bolstered Republican candidates in state elections, a witness for plaintiffs in North Carolina’s gerrymandering trial said Monday.
Read moreSecret Files Revealed in North Carolina Gerrymandering Case
Formerly secret files of a deceased mapmaker were displayed for the first time publicly in a Raleigh court Friday, concluding week-one of North Carolina’s lengthy trial to determine if Republicans unfairly gerrymandered state political districts in their party’s favor.
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10th Circuit Upholds New Districts in Navajo Voting Rights Case
The 10th Circuit Tuesday approved new school board and county commission election districts for Utah’s geographically largest county, finding that a lower court properly sided with the Navajo Nation, which claimed that the old districts were unconstitutional.
Read moreNorth Carolina Judges Probe Partisan Bias in Gerrymandering Trial
The first day of a trial on partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina kicked off Monday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal in June to wade into the dispute.
Read moreOn Party Lines, High Court Nixes Political-Gerrymander Ruling
The Supreme Court delivered a defeat to election-reform advocates for the second year in a row Thursday, backing gerrymandered district maps that it called “highly partisan, by any measure.”
Read moreCensus, Redistricting Top Remaining Supreme Court Cases
The Supreme Court enters its final week of decisions with two politically charged issues unresolved, whether to rein in political line-drawing for partisan gain and allow a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Read morePrivilege in Census Probe Drives House to Delay Contempt Vote
With the White House now asserting executive privilege, lawmakers investigating the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census are delaying Wednesday a vote that would hold two Trump officials in contempt.
Read moreSupreme Court Blocks Orders on Michigan, Ohio Gerrymanders
Michigan and Ohio lawmakers secured a temporary reprieve Friday from orders to redraw election districts that federal judges threw out as unconstitutional gerrymanders.
Read moreOhio GOP Loses Bid to Block Gerrymander Ruling
The Republican-controlled Ohio Legislature, joined by several state congressional representatives, failed Thursday in its attempt to stay an injunction that requires it to draw a new electoral map before the 2020 election.
Read morePanel Orders Michigan to Redraw Gerrymandered Maps
After several weeks of deliberation, a trio of federal judges ruled Thursday that Michigan Republicans illegally drew election maps to secure GOP victories and ordered lawmakers to redraw dozens of districts for the 2020 election.
Read moreRound 2 in Redistricting Battle to Test High Court’s New Make-Up
With time running out before the 2020 census triggers nationwide redistricting efforts, the Supreme Court will bring its focus back Tuesday to whether there can be a test for partisan gerrymandering.
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