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The Texas showdown has revived gerrymandering fears as the Supreme Court's 2019 Rucho ruling left redistricting power ...
The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...
A Supreme Court ruling cracked open the door to more partisan tactics. Now, Trump and his Texas cronies are kicking it in.
The idea that our political opponents will "fairly" draw competitive districts is a myth we need to abandon. And this applies ...
When Democratic lawmakers left Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s ...
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 ...
Things are messy and only getting messier. To understand the showdown in Texas — and its stakes for the rest of the country — ...
The disappointment had a bitter epilogue. A Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court found in February of 2022 that ...
Partisan redistricting has become a sticking point for states and while experts said some states are more egregious with the ...
That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who served as California's governor from 2003-2011, said he is "monitoring" the unfolding ...