The Texas showdown has revived gerrymandering fears as the Supreme Court's 2019 Rucho ruling left redistricting power ...

The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states, was greenlit by the US ...

The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...

The Supreme Court recently signaled what could be the end of the Voting Rights Act, according to one expert. James Sample, a ...

The idea that our political opponents will "fairly" draw competitive districts is a myth we need to abandon. And this applies ...

The word “gerrymander” was coined in America more than 200 years ago as an unflattering means of describing political ...

The disappointment had a bitter epilogue. A Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court found in February of 2022 that ...

Texas Republicans are trying to reconvene the state Legislature to vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party’s ...

Most notably, in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), the Republican justices held that federal courts may not hear suits challenging partisan gerrymanders. Among other things, Rucho enables tactics like ...

Texas Republicans’ recent move to redraw the state’s congressional districts in has little precedent, and nobody is ...

Things are messy and only getting messier. To understand the showdown in Texas — and its stakes for the rest of the country — ...

That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...