The Texas showdown has revived gerrymandering fears as the Supreme Court's 2019 Rucho ruling left redistricting power ...

For now, the Voting Rights Act imposes some restraints, but the court has also signaled it could further weaken the landmark ...

What is gerrymandering, and why has it turned into a political flashpoint in Texas? We explain the saga, in 8 points.

The Supreme Court has ruled that judges are powerless to review partisan gerrymandering. But courts can still enforce the ...

Texas lawmakers' drawing new congressional boundaries to advantage Republicans has ignited a national scrum over ...

The word “gerrymander" was coined in America more than 200 years ago. What to know about the political manipulation in ...

The disappointment had a bitter epilogue. A Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court found in February of 2022 that ...

Most notably, in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), the Republican justices held that federal courts may not hear suits challenging partisan gerrymanders. Among other things, Rucho enables tactics like ...

In Texas, a chaotic fight is brewing over Republicans’ plans to redraw the state’s congressional map to give the GOP the ...

In addition to Texas and California, several other states are now threatening to redraw their congressional maps, including ...

California may follow Texas' lead and redraw congressional districts for partisan advantage ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

That is precisely what the Supreme Court did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The ...