Early voting for the May 16 election began Saturday with confusion over whether all the races listed on the ballot are still taking place. Even motivated voters who showed up within the first few hours said they weren’t quite sure whether the U.S. House elections were still happening. “I went ahead and voted for who I wanted to vote for. If they don’t count it, that’s their problem,”…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. In a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, a majority of justices ruled Wednesday that Louisiana must redraw a congressional map that was designed to create a second majority-Black district in…
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The Florida Legislature has approved a new congressional map sent to them just two days earlier by Gov. Ron DeSantis that could give Florida Republicans up to four new congressional seats in the November midterm elections. The Florida Senate voted, 21-17, Wednesday afternoon to approve the map. Four Republicans – Jennifer Bradley, Alexis Calatayud, Ileana Garcia, and Erin Grall — joined…
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Following the calamitous U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday that dismantled enforcement mechanisms for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) told reporters that, if Republicans continue trying to redistrict their states to gain a political advantage in the 2026 midterms, Democrats should respond in kind. Ocasio-Cortez has been a staunch proponent of…
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The United States Supreme Court issued an opinion on Wednesday that critics say may have finally dismantled protections for nonwhite voters codified in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. By a 6-3 ruling along partisan lines, the conservative-led court found that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was being improperly used by lower courts to require states that have racially gerrymandered their…
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Gov. Ron DeSantis released his proposed newly redrawn map of the state’s congressional districts on Monday, one that aims to add four Republican leaning seat to the 20 (out of 28) already represented by Republicans in Florida. The governor released the map first to Fox News before sending to lawmakers an hour later. “They are erasing Democratic representation all across the state…
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