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Piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting
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...
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 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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Black people in the United States possess formal legal rights guaranteed by constitutional amendments and landmark federal laws, but the historical record and contemporary reporting show a persistent ...
The short answer: race-based gerrymandering has long been declared unconstitutional, but recent Supreme Court actions and filings create significant uncertainty about how strictly courts will police r...
Illinois currently relies on the state legislature to draw congressional and legislative maps, with statutory and legal safeguards intended to protect equal population and minority representation — in...
Redistricting and retirements can materially change a district’s partisan lean by moving voters across lines or opening competitive primaries; Georgia’s 14th — Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat — is repea...
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress — not the President — the basic framework for House representation (apportionment after the census) and leaves states responsible for drawing districts; federal la...
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...
The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Allen v. Milligan (June 8, 2023) upheld the continued, fact‑intensive application of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a ruling advocates and courts said wo...