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Indiana Senate Rejects Mid-Cycle Congressional Map Proposal

By EditorDec 11, 20250 Comments

The Indiana Republican-led Senate voted down a mid-decade congressional map on Thursday, December 11, 2025, which would have favored the Republican party in the 2026 elections. The map was designed to increase the number of Republican-controlled congressional seats from seven to nine by effectively eliminating Indiana’s two Democratic-held districts by splitting Indianapolis into four districts. The redistricting plan was defeated by a bipartisan majority, with 21 Republican senators joining all 10 Democrats in the chamber to vote against the measure. The vote occurred despite months of intense national pressure, including urging from President Donald Trump to engage in mid-cycle redistricting.…

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Supreme Court Greenlights Texas Congressional Map for 2026

By EditorDec 06, 20250 Comments

Texas may use its new congressional plan for the 2026 elections after the Supreme Court granted the state’s emergency stay on Thursday, Dec. 4. In a short, unsigned order, the Court paused a three-judge district court’s Nov. 18 injunction that had barred the 2025 map and directed Texas back to its 2021 lines. Justice Samuel Alito had entered an administrative stay on Nov. 21 while the Court considered the application. The 5-paragraph order says Texas is likely to succeed because the lower court failed to presume legislative good faith and did not draw an adverse inference from the challengers’ failure…

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Utah Judge Chooses League of Women Voters’ Congressional Map, Rejects Legislature’s Plan

By EditorNov 14, 2025

A Utah trial court has selected a new congressional plan for the 2026 cycle, rejecting the Legislature’s October “Map C” and adopting the map offered by plaintiffs; the League of Women Voters of Utah and Mormon Women for Ethical Government.” In a 90-page ruling issued just before the court’s November 10 deadline, Third District Judge Dianna M. Gibson found Map C to be an “extreme partisan outlier” drawn to favor Republicans and held that it failed to comply with the neutral criteria required by Utah’s voter-approved Proposition 4. Judge Gibson ordered Plaintiffs’ Map 1 (see below) to take effect in…

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Ohio Redistricting Commission Unanimously Approves New Congressional Map with Implications for the Mid-Decade Push

By EditorOct 31, 2025

Ohio’s seven-member Redistricting Commission voted unanimously today to approve a new congressional map that will govern the state’s 15 U.S. House districts starting with the 2026 election cycle. The bipartisan deal preserves a GOP advantage and could shift the balance from the current 10-5 split to something closer to 12-3. Commissioners from both parties backed the plan to meet the Oct. 31 constitutional deadline and avoid sending map-drawing back to the legislature. Why a new map was required: under Ohio’s 2018 reform (Article XIX), the 2021 congressional map was adopted without the required bipartisan supermajority, authorizing it to govern only…

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North Carolina Becomes the 3rd State to Enact a Mid-Decade Congressional Map

By EditorOct 25, 2025

North Carolina has enacted a mid-decade congressional map that analysts say will shift the state’s delegation from 10 - 4 to 11 Republicans and 3 Democrats. GOP lawmakers pushed the plan through both chambers on Wednesday, October 22. Because the North Carolina constitution exempts redistricting bills from the governor’s veto, the map became law the moment the House vote concluded. Local coverage notes the new lines overhaul the coastal 1st District, trimming its Black voting-age share below 40 percent and adding Republican-leaning counties, while shoring up neighboring GOP seats. View a PDF of the map. The mid-cycle redraw comes after…

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The Court’s Second Look: Inside the October 15 Oral Argument in Louisiana v. Callais

By EditorOct 18, 2025

The Supreme Court reheard Louisiana v. Callais on Oct. 15, focusing on whether Louisiana’s intentional creation of a second majority-Black congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments. Louisiana enacted SB 8 in 2024, creating a second majority-Black district after a trial court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the legislature's 2022 congressional map, which consisted of one majority Black district. A three-judge court in the Western District of Louisiana preliminarily enjoined the court-ordered 2024 remedial map on April 30, 2024, as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander after voters sued. The State and intervenor-appellants took a direct appeal to the Supreme Court,…

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New GOP Lawsuit Targets Differential Privacy and Group Quarters Imputation, Claiming Flawed 2020 Census Data

By EditorOct 11, 2025

A federal lawsuit challenging the underlying data of the 2020 U.S. Census has been filed in a Florida federal court by two young Republican organizations. The plaintiffs in this case, with potential national implications, are the University of South Florida College Republicans and its President, Michael Fusella, individually, along with the Pinellas County Young Republicans and its President, Parisa Mousavi, individually. The addresses associated with these plaintiffs fall within Florida's 14th Congressional District (represented by a Democrat) and the 15th Congressional District (represented by a Republican). The suit names the federal officials responsible for the data collection as defendants: Howard…

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Utah Lawmakers Approve New Congressional Map Amid Renewed Court Scrutiny

By EditorOct 06, 2025

Utah’s Republican-led Legislature approved a new congressional map (“Option C”) during a special session on Monday Oct. 6, redrawing boundaries under a court order that barred the 2021 plan from use in 2026. The map, which splits Salt Lake County east–west, is projected to keep all four U.S. House districts leaning Republican while making one seat modestly more competitive. Lawmakers advanced the plan largely along party lines; it now heads into court review on a tight timetable, with election officials indicating new lines must be in place by Nov. 10. (The Salt Lake Tribune) On the same day, lawmakers passed,…

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Utah Legislators Review 5 Congressional Map Proposals

By EditorSep 23, 2025

Utah lawmakers have released five options for new congressional boundaries and are moving forward with a court-ordered overhaul of the state’s four U.S. House seats. This follows a recent ruling by Judge Dianna Gibson that the Legislature had improperly disregarded the redistricting standards established by Proposition 4 in 2018. Since the maps used since the 2022 election are now prohibited from being used in the 2026 election, the Legislative Redistricting Committee is scheduled to meet to discuss the five proposals. The legislature must adopt a draft map by September 25, which will then undergo a 10-day public comment period and…

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Utah Court Throws Out Congressional Map, Orders Redraw

By EditorAug 26, 2025

Utah’s redistricting fight reached a turning point on Monday, when Third District Court Judge Dianna Gibson ruled that lawmakers unconstitutionally repealed the voter‑approved Proposition 4 and ordered the Legislature to enact a remedial congressional map for the 2026 cycle. Proposition 4 passed narrowly by voters in 2018 and was branded “Better Boundaries.” Prop 4 created a seven-member independent redistricting commission and required maps to meet neutral criteria, including equal population, compactness/contiguity, maintaining cities and counties together, respecting communities of interest, and forbidding the drawing of districts to favor or disfavor a party or incumbent unduly. The Legislature could enact or…

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