California voters decide Proposition 50 authorizing new congressional maps to flip 5 Republican seats Democratic, directly countering Trump-ordered Texas redistricting. Newsom’s “Election Rigging Response Act” bypasses independent commission through 2030 if any Republican state …
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The Supreme Court heard rare second-round oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could fundamentally weaken or eliminate Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The case questions whether Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-Black congressional district (which elected Rep. …
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Texas House Democrats return to Austin after 2-week quorum break in Illinois, ending resistance to Trump-ordered congressional redistricting. Republicans impose 24-hour security surveillance requiring DPS escorts and “permission slips” to leave chamber. Rep. Nicole Collier refuses, …
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In a controversial move, the Texas Legislature voted to change quorum rules and pass a new congressional map creating five additional safe Republican seats without Democratic members present. The legislature modified procedural rules to allow passage despite the absence of Democratic lawmakers, who …
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New York, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, and New Jersey announce coordinated mid-cycle redistricting efforts to counter Republican gerrymandering, effectively ending the constitutional norm of decennial redistricting tied to census.
Governor Newsom announces plan to redraw California congressional maps to “put a stake in the heart” of Trump’s Texas redistricting, stating “We can sit on the sidelines and talk about the way the world should be, or we could recognize the existential nature that is this …
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52 Texas House Democrats fled to Illinois to break quorum and prevent a vote on unprecedented mid-cycle redistricting that would create 5 new safe Republican congressional seats, echoing 2003 and 2021 walkouts but this time leaving state to avoid federal law enforcement. At least 51 Democratic …
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The Supreme Court held that Alabama’s congressional map likely violated §2 of the Voting Rights
Act and ordered a remedy adding a second majority-Black district. The ruling preserved the
Thornburg v. Gingles framework for vote-dilution claims, affecting redistricting nationally.
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In Department of Commerce v. New York, the Supreme Court held that the Secretary’s stated
rationale for adding a Census citizenship question was “contrived” and set aside the decision.
Separate court filings introduced the late GOP strategist Thomas Hofeller’s 2015 study and …
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The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) launches REDMAP (Redistricting Majority Project), a strategic initiative to gain control of state legislatures before the 2011 redistricting cycle following the 2010 Census. The project represents an unprecedented systematic approach to gerrymandering …
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