A federal court ruled Tuesday that Texas’s new congressional map, which created five additional seats for Republicans, is illegal on the basis of racial gerrymandering. The US District Court for the ...

A federal court ruled that Texas cannot use its recently passed congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections and will instead have to rely on a previous map from 2021. Texas Republican state ...

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The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that ...

Texas on Friday filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court after a ruling by a panel of federal judges blocked the state from using its redrawn congressional map, calling it "racially ...

A panel of federal judges is deliberating on whether California's newly approved congressional district maps, passed with Proposition 50, violate the U.S. Constitution.

FOR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE THE DOCUMENTS PUBLIC. TONIGHT, WE ARE FOLLOWING UP ON A NEW FEDERAL LAWSUIT FILED OVER NORTH CAROLINA'S NEW DISTRICT MAP. THE FILING ONCE AGAIN PUTS THE MAP UNDER ...

Just last week California’s secretary of state officially certified that nearly two-thirds of Californians voted to pass Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to temporarily gerrymander the state’s ...

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. Just last week California’s secretary of state officially ...