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Dec 19 2023
News
Potential dates revealed for planned special sessions on redistricting, crime in La.
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Potential dates for upcoming planned special sessions on redistricting and crime in Louisiana have been revealed. Emails recently went out to Louisiana lawmakers, telling them to plan for a special session on redistricting from January 15, 2024, through January 23, 2024, and another special session on crime between February 19, 2024, and March 6, 2024. The emails came
KPLCDec 28 2023
News
Michigan redistricting panel unable to muster quorum to appeal ruling to Supreme Court
Michigan's redistricting commission was unable to muster a quorum Thursday to vote on whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal ruling ordering 13 state House and Senate seats redrawn. The normally 13-member commission entered closed session Thursday afternoon with 11 members and a motion to appeal last week's federal ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, but emerged from closed
Detroit NewsMay 24 2023
News
Black Arkansas Residents Launch Legal Action To Stop GOP Gerrymandering
As noted by the voting rights organization Democracy Docket, another lawsuit has been filed that challenges the redistricting process that was undertaken in Arkansas after the last census. The new case is in federal court and focuses on the redistricting done for the state’s slate of Congressional districts, a process that left Pulaski County, which contains the state capital, evidently spread
Bipartisan ReportSep 06 2023
News
What the latest Alabama redistricting ruling means for my swing district.
Back in June, the Supreme Court surprised skeptics when it ruled that Alabama’s Republican legislature likely violated the Voting Rights Act by racially gerrymandering the state’s congressional districts. Here’s the latest news: Yesterday, a panel of three federal judges rejected the redrawn map from Alabama lawmakers, which ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling by failing to include a second
Daily KosNov 07 2023
News
Mayor vetoes Baltimore City Council's redistricting map
In a letter to Council President Nick Mosby, Scott mentions not being able to reach agreements on the amendments to the map as a reason for the veto. The mayor also notes that in his map it included an equality of population and that each district had an anchor institution. In the letter he says it was "unclear how decisions were made based upon the feedback provided by members of the public
WMAR 2Nov 16 2023
News
In a New York court, Democrats seek a redo after their bungled gerrymander
New York's top court will soon decide whether to allow the state's congressional map to be redrawn for a third time this decade, as Democrats seek to eke out more favorable political boundary lines before the 2024 elections. Democratic lawmakers in the state bungled a gerrymander last year, passing maps that so significantly boosted their congressional prospects that state courts tossed them
NBC News (Online)Oct 07 2023
News
New justice to stay on Wisconsin redistricting cases
MADISON, Wis. -- A newly elected liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, who has called Republican-drawn electoral districts "rigged," declined to recuse herself on Friday from a pair of redistricting lawsuits. Justice Janet Protasiewicz's decision to remain on the cases increases the chance that Republicans, who control the Legislature and drew the maps, may proceed with the unprecedented
Arkansas Democrat-GazetteNov 10 2021
Opinion
No One Is Prepared for the New Gerrymanders
Toward the end of the last decade, in Rucho v. Common Cause, the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed justices effectively abolished constitutional limits on partisan gerrymandering. But don’t worry about it, Chief Justice John Roberts told the country: You, the citizens, can fix this problem yourselves! States “are actively addressing the issue on a number of fronts,” Roberts promised, and
SlateDec 06 2023
News
North Dakota lawmakers to join appeal against redistricting map ruling
(Bismarck, ND) -- North Dakota lawmakers are joining a legal fight over the state's redistricting map. The Legislative Management committee agreed yesterday to hire an attorney to try to temporarily block a federal ruling issued last month. In November, a judge decided that a congressional map drawn in 2021 violated the Voting Rights Act because it didn't give Native Americans an equal chance
WZFG The FlagDec 19 2023
News
See when the Louisiana Legislature plans to hold special sessions on crime, redistricting
Gov.-elect Jeff Landry plans to call Louisiana lawmakers back to Baton Rouge for a pair of special sessions — one focused on crime and the other on redistricting — in January and February. The redistricting session is poised to take place from Jan. 15 to Jan. 23. A crime-focused special session will likely last from Feb. 19 to March 6, incoming House Speaker Phillip DeVillier, R-Eunice, and
The Times-Picayune