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.”
Read moreThe 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 moreWith 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 moreMichigan and Ohio lawmakers secured a temporary reprieve Friday from orders to redraw election districts that federal judges threw out as unconstitutional gerrymanders.
Read moreThe 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 moreAfter 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 moreWith 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.
Read moreIn their second look at Virginia election districts, the justices of the Supreme Court appeared conflicted Monday over whether the map for the state’s House of Delegates was racially gerrymandered.
Read moreBeginning a two-week stretch in which gerrymandering returns to the high court, the justices of the Supreme Court will consider on Monday whether the Virginia Legislature improperly carved up its map to disadvantage black voters.
Read moreVirginians 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.
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