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The disappointment had a bitter epilogue. A Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court found in February of 2022 that ...
Texas lawmakers' drawing new congressional boundaries to advantage Republicans has ignited a national scrum over ...
A group of Texas Democrats is sheltering in Illinois to stop a Republican redistricting effort back home. See how Pritzker ...
The word “gerrymander" was coined in America more than 200 years ago. What to know about the political manipulation in ...
Texas Democrats have fled the state to halt a redistricting vote aimed at cementing Republican power. Donald Trump has been ...
In addition to Texas and California, several other states are now threatening to redraw their congressional maps, including ...
Federal courts are unlikely to play a significant role in resolving disputes over partisan gerrymandering, after a 2019 landmark Supreme Court decision sidelined judges.
That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...
Two prominent Democratic governors also warned they were ready to trigger redistricting in their states if Texas' off-cycle ...
Texas asked the Supreme Court to intervene, and it did. In September 2012, the High Court stayed the Texas court’s orders, and later set the case for oral argument.
This Supreme Court term is all about gerrymandering, both partisan and now racial. But Abbott v. Perez is the only race-related gerrymandering case that it will hear this term.
Texas’ legal battle is the third gerrymandering case the court has heard this term. Unlike this case, which is centered on racial gerrymandering, cases in Wisconsin and Maryland were focused on ...