And let’s not forget how, last December, SCOTUS also granted the state of Texas its blessing to enact a similar ...

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a Louisiana congressional map that protected Black voters, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn encouraged state legislatures to hold a special legislative ...

Letter writers discuss gerrymandering, Trump’s ‘get out of jail’ card, no help for Iranian people and sea level rise.

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that ...

Following each national census, there is a process whereby states redraw the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts to reflect population changes. This process, redistricting, ...

In 1999, there were 164 House districts where election results were within five points of the national popular vote. Today there are only 82. One major factor in the elimination of competitive swing ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end longstanding discriminatory practices that prevented them from voting. These ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that partisan gerrymandering claims are "political" questions that federal courts can’t answer. The court said "excessive" gerrymandering was "incompatible with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Craig Patrick breaks down Florida’s controversial new political map and potential U.S. military operations in Cuba.

As Democrats support a deceptively worded ballot measure to create a rank partisan gerrymander in Virginia, they nevertheless claim the moral high ground, and many in the news media agree with the ...

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis this week is pushing his state’s GOP-dominated legislature to adopt a gerrymandering scheme that could create four new Republican U.S. House districts in the ...