by Chris Walker | Nov 12, 2025 | Ballot Initiatives, Gerrymandering, Impeachment, independent redistricting commissions, News, Redistricting, Utah
Utah Republicans appear to be readying articles of impeachment against a state judge who ruled the congressional maps they had redrawn were unconstitutional gerrymanders and in violation of a ballot initiative passed by voters seven years ago. On Monday, Judge Dianna Gibson rejected congressional boundaries offered by Republicans in a lawsuit over the party originally drawing maps improperly…
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by Chris Walker | Oct 23, 2025 | 2026 midterms, California, Gerrymandering, News, Redistricting, redistricting reform, Trump redistricting scheme
New polling of California voters shows strong support for temporarily changing the state’s process of drawing congressional boundaries in order to diminish the effects of a nationwide Republican gerrymandering scheme. At the behest of the Trump administration, several GOP-led states have either started or completed redistricting processes to give their party added advantages in next year’s…
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by Chris Walker | Oct 21, 2025 | Gerrymandering, News, North Carolina, Redistricting, redistricting reform, Voting Rights Act
On Tuesday, North Carolina’s Republican-led state legislature got closer to approving new congressional district lines, part of a nationwide scheme by Republicans and President Donald Trump’s political team to stop Democrats from potentially gaining control of Congress following the upcoming 2026 midterms. Democrats are hoping to win enough seats to take control of the U.S.
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by Stephen Prager | Oct 17, 2025 | 2026 midterms, elections, Gerrymandering, GOP, Louisiana, midterms, News, Racial Justice, Republicans, Supreme Court, Voting Rights, Voting Rights Act
The US Supreme Court will rehear a case on Wednesday that could strike a death blow to the Voting Rights Act and, in the process, virtually guarantee that Republicans hang on to power in the 2026 midterm elections and well into the future. At issue in the case, Louisiana v. Callais, is Section 2 of the VRA, which outlaws racially discriminatory redistricting. Max Flugrath…
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