Redistricting
GOP push to exclude some noncitizens raises questions over the future of redistricting.
In recent weeks, redistricting has wreaked havoc in Texas, Indiana, and North Carolina.
The ruling is a major win for the Trump administration and Texas Republicans, who engineered the map to give the GOP control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts.
Legal battle over the state’s mid-decade redistricting continues ahead of the candidate filing deadline.
It’s a technical, often confusing process involving maps, math, and politics. Here are 7 questions to test your knowledge.
First, a switch to new congressional maps. Now, a switch back to the old ones, with a key deadline approaching, and another reversal still possible.
The state is expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court for a pause that would allow the new district lines to take effect while an appeal plays out.
The decision is a major blow for Republicans who had pushed for new district maps to help protect the party’s narrow U.S. House majority.
The race for the Houston-area congressional seat is headed for a runoff, with a primary coming just weeks later.
Election officials in Los Angeles and Orange counties said federal monitors did not disrupt election processes.
The justices are revisiting some arguments on redistricting that appeared settled just two years ago.
State is accused of intentionally diluting the power of Black and Hispanic voters
The new maps destroy majority-minority districts and fail to account for growth in Latino population, the plaintiffs allege.
The mid-decade gerrymander is meant to shore up the GOP's majority in U.S. House. It has triggered an era of retaliatory redistricting.
The bold mid-decade redistricting aims to fulfill Trump's call to protect the GOP’s slim majority in the U.S. House.
The 18th Congressional District, a hub of Black political power, faces the prospect of new dividing lines.
The data shapes political representation, but it also drives decisions on funding, infrastructure, business, and emergency planning. Altering how it’s collected could undermine all of that.
New maps would mean months of work for election officials, and key deadlines are approaching.
States test the limits of their rules as midterms near. The courts are watching.
Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map