Latest Redistricting News

Supreme Court will weigh in on new mostly Black Louisiana congressional district, after election

Nov. 04, 2024 13:03 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana's congressional map with two mostly Black districts. The court won't hear arguments until early next year and the 2024 elections are proceeding under the challenged map,...

Former US attorney general says House candidate Shomari Figures in Alabama will fight for equality

Oct. 28, 2024 22:36 PM EDT

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who backed litigation that resulted in the redrawing of Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, called next week’s election a historic opportunity for the state’s voters. Holder appeared with the district's...

Georgia Democrats try to get closer to a majority as they contest legislative seats

Oct. 25, 2024 17:22 PM EDT

PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga. (AP) — The general in one of Georgia's house-to-house partisan struggles was rallying her troops on Saturday morning in a suburban Atlanta coffee shop. Democratic state House candidate Laura Murvartian stood up on a stool to urge 50 canvassers to turn out...

Ohio's fall redistricting issue sparked a fight over one word. So what is 'gerrymandering,' anyway?

Sep. 27, 2024 17:09 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — All the political wrangling over Ohio's Issue 1, a statewide ballot issue aimed at changing the way the state draws its political maps, has landed voters in a fix. While they are hearing from the campaign behind the constitutional amendment that it would prevent...

Plaintiffs won't revive federal lawsuit over Tennessee's redistricting maps

Sep. 27, 2024 13:24 PM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennessee voting and civil rights advocates says it won't refile a federal lawsuit alleging the state's U.S. House map and boundaries for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. In a news release Friday, the plaintiffs...

Ohio officials approve language saying anti-gerrymandering measure calls for the opposite

Sep. 19, 2024 10:17 AM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio election officials have approved ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1, a redistricting measure, as requiring gerrymandering when the proposal is intended to do the opposite. The Republican-controlled Ohio Ballot Board approved the...

Ohio Supreme Court clears ballot language saying anti-gerrymandering measure calls for the opposite

Sep. 16, 2024 22:27 PM EDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court let stand late Monday ballot language that will describe this fall’s Issue 1 as requiring gerrymandering, when the proposal is intended to do the opposite. In a 4-3 ruling, the high court ordered two of eight disputed sections of the...

Fight to restore Black voters' strength could dismantle Florida's Fair Districts Amendment

Sep. 12, 2024 15:49 PM EDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A coalition of voting rights groups is pointing to a voter-approved amendment to argue Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the state constitution when he dismantled a Black congressional district, but if they lose the case, the Fair Districts Amendment itself...

Judges dismiss suit alleging Tennessee's political maps discriminate against communities of color

Aug. 22, 2024 14:59 PM EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judicial panel has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Tennessee's U.S. House maps and those for the state Senate amount to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. “In sum, the complaint alleges facts that are consistent with a racial gerrymander,"...

Utah lawmakers want voters to give them the power to change ballot measures once they've passed

Aug. 21, 2024 22:56 PM EDT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature will ask voters in November to relinquish some of their rights to lawmakers who want the ability to change state ballot measures after they’ve passed. Frustrated by a recent state Supreme Court ruling, lawmakers...