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The latest order from the Supreme Court reminds us that the court exercises significant control over its docket and is ...
The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority ...
The Supreme Court will hear a case over the creation of minority-majority congressional districts under the Voting Rights Act as states weigh redistricting.
Most notably, in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), the Republican justices held that federal courts may not hear suits ...
Reading the tea leaves from cryptic Supreme Court orders can be perilous business because the justices are not bound by the questions they ask at oral argument, the offhand comments they … Continue re ...
The court fight could result in yet another congressional map for Louisiana and change the rules for redistricting nationwide ...
A group of Baton Rouge judges wants a federal court to reopen a 1986 voting rights case, arguing a new 19th JDC election map ...
Senators Wyden and Merkley join efforts to reintroduce the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, aiming to restore and ...
Section 2 of the Act prohibits the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race, which has historically been ...
Texas Democrats on Monday prevented — for now — the chamber from continuing with a congressional map that would aggressively ...
The word “gerrymander” was coined in America more than 200 years ago as an unflattering means of describing political ...