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Piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
Both parties engage in mid‑decade and decennial mapmaking to gain advantage: Republicans have driven a larger share of the maps this decade and, according to the Brennan Center, gerrymandering likely ...
Gerrymandering alters who controls elections by reshaping district lines to concentrate or dilute voters’ power; states this year have passed—and courts have blocked—maps that judges found to be racia...
Gerrymandering systematically reshapes electoral outcomes by allowing map-drawers to translate votes into seats in ways that advantage one party or diminish the representation of specific communities,...
Texas has redrawn its congressional map since the 2020 census twice: an initial 38‑district plan enacted in 2021 and a new mid‑decade map passed in 2025 that will govern elections beginning in 2026. T...
Democratic-party gerrymandering allegations played a visible but uneven role in shaping narratives and legal fights around the 2024 election; most empirical analyses indicate in House races, while Dem...
The 2020 census prompted a significant redrawing of California’s congressional map: California lost one House seat, reducing its delegation to , and the independent California Citizens Redistricting C...
Gerrymandering changes who has real power at the ballot box by packing and cracking minority communities—practices that both dilute representation and can lower turnout when voters feel their votes ar...
Texas’s new congressional maps are an aggressive, mid-decade Republican redraw that lawmakers and advocates say is designed to add between three and five GOP-leaning seats and to reshape metro and Sou...
Illinois and New York have been at the center of high-profile redistricting disputes, but the record shows , with notable court-ordered redraws and proposals about mid‑decade authority rather than cle...
Florida has credible, recent evidence of contentious redistricting practices: federal lawsuits allege racially driven maps in Miami-Dade and public polling shows broad opposition to mid‑decade redraws...
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2023 largely upheld Texas’s state-house and congressional redistricting maps while leaving intact one state House district ruling; the decision was announced in June 2023 (th...
Gerrymandering is a decisive force reshaping Texas congressional district demographics by enabling the party controlling map drawing to engineer district boundaries that racial and partisan groups, pr...
Illinois conducted routine redistricting after the 2010 and 2020 censuses; there is in the supplied material that Illinois carried out a separate mid‑decade redistricting outside those post‑census cyc...
California’s 2020 census-driven redistricting, implemented by the Citizens Redistricting Commission and first used for the 2022 elections, reshaped district lines in ways that overall , who went from ...
The 2025 Texas congressional redistricting, signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott on August 29, 2025, is designed to shift the balance of U.S. House seats in Texas by in the 2026 elections. The map'...
Texas’s congressional map has evolved from lines drawn after the 2010 census to a contested new map enacted in 2025 that Republicans say will net them as many as five additional U.S. House seats for t...
The 2025 Texas congressional maps were enacted to create up to , setting the stage for potential GOP gains in the 2026 U.S. House elections while triggering legal challenges arguing racial discriminat...
Texas' 2025 redistricting prompted legal challenges and sharp partisan disagreement, with civil rights groups and Democrats arguing the new congressional maps , while Republicans assert the maps bette...
’s centerpiece civil-rights laws and materially expanded Black political power in the 1960s by removing legal barriers to registration and by delivering visible government resources, and those changes...
’s recent jurisprudence treats the as a constitutional and statutory obligation to enumerate “whole persons,” but it has not uniformly embraced efforts to exclude or to single out noncitizens; instead...