Maryland Judge Orders Legislative Leaders to Testify in Partisan Gerrymandering Case

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Maryland Judge Orders Legislative Leaders to Testify in Partisan Gerrymandering Case

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Maryland - Nearly four years after Bethesda, Md. resident Stephen M. Shapiro and other Maryland voters filed a partisan gerrymandering lawsuit against Maryland's congressional district map, a judge has ordered…

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Federal District Court in Alabama Strikes Down 12 State Legislative Districts on Remand

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Alabama - A U.S. District Court panel invalidated a substantial portion of the Alabama state legislative district map after considering the racial gerrymandering challenge on remand from the U.S. Supreme…

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The Efficiency Gap Visualized Through the Decades

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The hottest thing in redistricting - if there is such a thing - is undoubtedly the emergence of "Efficiency Gap" analysis, and whether this measurement of how gerrymandered a map…

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Video: Sen. Jeff Sessions on Voting Rights

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Washington. DC: Here is the exchange between Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) and Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions on voting, voter fraud, and the Voting Rights Act.

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Supreme Court Orders Stay in North Carolina Redistricting Case

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Washington DC - The full text of the order is below: TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017 ORDER IN PENDING CASE 16A646 NORTH CAROLINA, ET AL. V. SANDRA LITTLE COVINGTON, ET…

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Briefs on Timing of a Remedy Filed in Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Case

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Wisconsin - A federal district court last November found Wisconsin's 2011 Republican-drawn state assembly map to be an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. That almost never happens. (more…)

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Texas Three-Judge Court Cites “Voluminous” Record as Reason Why it Will Take Its Sweet Time on Texas Redistricting

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San Antonio, Texas - Its the biggest, most watched redistricting litigation of the decade; but the Texas redistricting case(s) began in 2011 and no ruling has been forthcoming by the…

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Chief Justice Roberts Requests Response in NC Racial Gerrymandering Case

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North Carolina - A three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled that 28 state legislative districts in North Carolina's 2010 redistricting map were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders that diluted the votes of black and Hispanic…

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Texas Federal Court Imposes Preclearance on City of Pasadena

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Pasadena, Texas - The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in this ruling invalidated the city's move from an eight-member district redistricting map to a mixed map…

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Meet The Democrat’s Secret Redistricting Weapon in 2020

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Watch MSNBC interview Kelly Ward, former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee about her new role as the Democrat party's answer to the wildly successful national Republican redistricting…