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Jun 08 2023
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Legal scholar: Redistricting ruling suggests SCOTUS “wrongly gave Republicans control of the House”
In a surprise decision, the Supreme Court ruled against a redrawn Alabama congressional voting map on Thursday, determining that the proposed redistricting diminished the power of Black voters in the state by corralling them in one district where they made up the majority. The Court's 5-4 ruling in the Allen v. Milligan case saw a majority comprised of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Brett
SalonJun 09 2023
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Black Leaders Cautiously Hail Alabama Redistricting SCOTUS Decision Protecting Voting Rights
Black leaders across the country are hailing Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to uphold a key voting rights law in Alabama as a major victory while also expressing cautious optimism about what comes next. The case, Allen v. Milligan, is largely seen as a ruling in favor of Black voters after the Supreme Court sided with a district court’s previous decision to redraw Alabama’s Republican-heavy
News OneJun 09 2023
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Supreme Surprise: Court Upholds Voting Rights Act, Strikes Down Alabama’s Racially Gerrymandered Maps
In a surprise 5-4 decision Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a racially gerrymandered voting map in Alabama, upholding a key plank of the Voting Rights Act that the conservative majority has spent years whittling away at. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the court’s liberal justices in finding that Alabama’s Republican-drawn congressional districts
Democracy Now!Apr 28 2023
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North Carolina Supreme Court hands down ruling on gerrymandering that will have huge implications in 2024
The BlazeMay 24 2023
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Second lawsuit filed challenging Arkansas’ congressional redistricting as aimed at diluting Black votes
The 2021 redistricting legislation that split Pulaski County into three congressional districts on Tuesday drew another legal challenge alleging that the plan violates the U.S. Constitution and dilutes the power of Black voters. The latest lawsuit was filed against Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston, as well as the six members of the Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners. The
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteJun 26 2023
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Supreme Court lifts pause on Louisiana redistricting case that could boost Black voting power
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to redraw congressional districts to boost Black voting power. The order follows the court's rejection earlier in June of a congressional redistricting map in Alabama and unfreezes the Louisiana case, which had been on hold pending the decision in Alabama. In both states, Black voters are a majority in
Fox News (Online News)Nov 23 2012
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Gerrymandering partisan lock: Shape of things to come
Two years after the 2010 census, new congressional districts have been set in the decennial reapportionment process run by the states, and some members joining the House of Representatives will be representing amorphous areas resembling the letter U, a rifle, an octopus and, yes, the salamander that gave “gerrymandering its name. Gerrymandering was pioneered two centuries ago in 1812 by
Washington TimesJun 20 2023
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‘A F*cking Landmine’: Unprecedented Redistricting Is Disrupting All Of Virginia’s State Legislative Primaries
• Virginia’s state legislative primaries on Tuesday are facing new challenges due to unprecedented redistricting by the state Supreme Court in 2021. • This year is the first time Virginia’s General Assembly faces an election with the new districts, prompting mass retirements, incumbents facing each other and delegates running for the state Senate, resulting in a possible generational shift in
The Daily CallerJan 07 2020
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Bill to stop 'prison gerrymandering' advances in New Jersey
A nearly decade-long drive to end what's known as "prison gerrymandering" in New Jersey is accelerating toward success, likely in plenty of time for the redrawing of the state's political maps for the coming decade.
Legislation that would count incarcerated people at their home addresses, rather than where they are in imprisoned, is headed to the full state House after it was endorsed 7
The FulcrumJan 30 2024
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Evers vetoes new legislative maps passed by Wisconsin Legislature
Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a set of legislative maps passed by Republican state lawmakers, likely leaving an ongoing dispute over redistricting in the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Republicans based the maps on those Evers submitted to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, but they made a handful of changes to prevent GOP incumbents from being drawn out of their current districts. In a his veto
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