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

America is currently at war over partisan gerrymandering. The Republican-controlled Texas legislature has just gerrymandered ...

The legal battle over Utah’s redistricting process and what congressional boundaries should be used for the 2026 election is ...

Democrats are losing their minds because the Supreme Court might nix the legal doctrines that have read the 1965 Voting ...

As the case in Texas shows, however, you can’t separate racial effects from political motivations. It’s absurd to ask courts ...

The state remains the only one in the nation where governors are explicitly barred from vetoing electoral maps — a legacy of ...

The state's highest court determined there is no statute in place prohibiting partisan gerrymandering, throwing out the ...

At 84, former University of Illinois Professor Jim Nowlan concedes he is a little old to be tilting at windmills. But it's OK, he said, because "I've tilted at a lot of windmills" during a long ...

When Democratic lawmakers left Texas on Aug. 3 to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state's congressional districts, it marked the latest episode in a long national ...

Kansas’ lone Democratic congresswoman is preparing legal strategies to fight Republican redistricting efforts in court, ...

Justice Samuel Alito drilled down on whether race is a proxy for partisan affiliation, during an oral argument Wednesday in a ...