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See this press release from the Lawyers’ Committee about this ruling from a federal district court partially denying the state’s motion to dismiss.
Politico: President Donald Trump’s aggressive redistricting push is sparking public concern from an unusual mix of Republicans. Resistance to mid-decade redraws is running the ideological gamut and ...
Politico: California Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a major hurdle in his quest to revamp his state’s congressional lines, according to a new poll: Californians’ deep support for its current independent ...
President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Texas Republicans have reignited the gerrymandering wars. The brazen power grab in Texas pushed Democrats to start their own efforts to unravel independent ...
NYT: Nine Latino Democratic officials and political operatives pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in South Texas to charges of criminal voter fraud, accusations that their defenders called blatant voter ...
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to ...
Five years ago, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was banished to the political wilderness.  Donald Trump blamed the mild-mannered election chief for his narrow 2020 Georgia ...
At the end of the opinion, the court rejects a constitutional challenge to Section 2. The Louisiana v. Callais case currently before the Supreme Court concerns Louisiana’s congressional maps.
NYT: Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, is taking a symbolic step toward curbing the influence of undisclosed and corporate funds in his party’s 2028 presidential primary, a move ...
We know the Supreme Court dallied a long time in setting the Louisiana case for reargument, only recently adding a doozy of a question in this racial gerrymandering case that could tee up a potential ...
NYT: The standoff in Texas over redrawing the state’s U.S. House districts to a sharply tilted Republican advantage has played out before the backdrop of a contentious U.S. Senate race that may well ...
At Donald Trump’s instigation, Republican lawmakers across the country are moving forward with plans to redraw their congressional maps outside of the normal once-a-decade redistricting process—purely ...