Following an election year when only a small subset of voters showed up to the polls, we offer this refresher on redistricting and gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is a manipulation of the redistricting ...

it could provide clearer guidance to states about how to comply with the act without being accused of racial gerrymandering. He called states’ request for more direction a “legitimate concern.” ...

The Supreme Court heard the case of Louisiana v. Callais, which deals with alleged racial gerrymandering in Louisiana. Louisiana has six congressional districts, four of which are Republican ...

The Court has also recognized the difficulty of separating racial and partisan gerrymandering when blacks vote overwhelmingly for Democrats and whites heavily for Republicans. Justice Alito made this ...

WASHINGTON − Louisiana last year sent two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in almost three decades under a congressional map being challenged as unfair to the state’s non ...

Gerrymandering throughout the US, but especially here in Wisconsin and our 1st Congressional District has allowed the political parties, power brokers and politicians to pick their voters ...

The court’s conservative majority already has ruled that federal courts have no role to play in partisan gerrymandering. Justice Clarence Thomas said the court also should no longer decide race ...

The Supreme Court sent a rather unfortunate message during Monday’s argument in a racial gerrymandering dispute called Louisiana v. Callais: Do not trust us. To understand where that message is ...

Louisianans traveled to a rainy Washington, D.C., Monday to demand the U.S. Supreme Court give them fair congressional maps. Saturday, April 19 marks 30 years since the most devastating domestic ...

Ray LaHood and James Nowlan: Extreme gerrymandering is as bad as old white-only primaries Political observers expect the state high court to do what it can to avoid a hearing on the merits ...