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The Texas showdown has revived gerrymandering fears as the Supreme Court's 2019 Rucho ruling left redistricting power ...
The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...
When Democratic lawmakers left Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s ...
For now, the Voting Rights Act imposes some restraints, but the court has also signaled it could further weaken the landmark ...
Texas Republicans are trying to reconvene the state Legislature to vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party’s ...
The Supreme Court recently signaled what could be the end of the Voting Rights Act, according to one expert. James Sample, a ...
The idea that our political opponents will "fairly" draw competitive districts is a myth we need to abandon. And this applies ...
The disappointment had a bitter epilogue. A Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court found in February of 2022 that ...
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.
Texas Gerrymandering Case Goes Before U.S. Supreme Court: What You Need to Know The nation’s high court will consider whether Texas legislative and congressional districts discriminate against ...
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the efforts of Texas Democrats and other plaintiffs to revive a partisan gerrymandering legal claim in the ongoing litigation over the state's political maps.