Part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act says that you cannot gerrymander based on the color of someone's skin.

Does Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which specifically forbids the creation of racially proportional congressional ...

A recent Washington Post opinion piece published in The Oregonian presented an appealing and practical way of ridding America of the unrepresentative, undemocratic and insane practice of ...

Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde promised a unified resistance to Republican attempts to further gerrymander Ohio's congressional maps. The Equal Districts Coalition is demanding politicians ...

Every ten years, after the census, Tennessee has to redraw its political maps. The idea is simple: Keep districts balanced so everyone’s vote carries the same weight. But the last round of ...

Louisiana Solictor General Hashim Mooppan, in an exchange with Justice Sotomayor, expands on the question discussed by the plaintiff about the difference between racial and partisan gerrymandering ...

Some longtime opponents of partisan gerrymandering are reconsidering their strategies in the wake of the controversial redistricting fights that President Trump has sparked in Texas and other states.

Re “Do Not Re-Gerrymander California,” by Charles T. Munger Jr. (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 3): There seems to be a righteous uproar about California’s Proposition 50 redistricting proposal. I’m a ...

The triumph of partisanship over principle was vividly played out in the key state of Virginia in the 1800 presidential election. Alexander Keyssar, a professor of history and social policy at the ...

The United States is in the middle of another round of the redistricting wars. This latest battle began in late August. The Texas legislature approved maps that will likely result in five additional ...