A three-judge panel in North Carolina ruled Monday that the state’s new congressional map can be used in the 2020 election, rejecting a challenge to the latest version drawn by Republican state lawmakers last month.
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The re-election victory by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards over the weekend has assured Democrats of an all-important place at the table when political maps are redrawn after the 2020 census for elections to Congress and the state Legislature.
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In a trial to determine whether or not Alabama racially gerrymandered some of its congressional districts, U.S. Congressman Bradley Byrne testified the four congressional maps proposed by the 10 black voters suing the state would “destroy” the ability of representatives to effectively serve their constituents.
Read moreA three-judge-panel in North Carolina’s capital Monday blocked the state’s Republican-drawn congressional map from being used in the 2020 elections.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to reduce the number of operating divisions in the Eastern District of Arkansas from five to three in a rare realignment of judicial lines, which was spurred by the 2017 closure of the only two federal courthouses in the two axed divisions.
Read moreThe Second Circuit advanced a lawsuit Tuesday that challenges how Connecticut counts prisoners when it draws up legislative districts.
Read moreThe 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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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 moreThe 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 moreFriday’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 moreFlaws 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 moreWitnesses 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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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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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 moreFormerly 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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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 moreThe 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 moreThe 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.”
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