As an all-out war over redistricting upends voting rights law and a battle over congressional maps plays out across the country, Democrats are looking for opportunities to cancel out Republican gains—and they have their sights set on Oregon. Oregon, like all states, redraws its state legislative and congressional maps regularly following the release of each […]
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The Supreme Court’s conservatives have spent years systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act, but the last seven months have been something else — a rapid-fire series of emergency docket rulings, procedural maneuvers, and carefully worded opinions that, taken together, make it effectively impossible to challenge racial gerrymandering. Not difficult. Impossible. And Justice Alito, in…
There are some rules one needs to follow. One of them is something the Democrats keep doing over and over again. And in this article by Tony Pentimalli, resorting to the old-fashioned ways may not be enough to win in 2026, but beating them at their own game with newer strategies will. Here’s his story: … Continue reading The Party That Keeps Bringing a Rulebook to a Knife Fight →
Gov. Mike Kehoe will ask Missouri voters in August to decide whether lawmakers should have new power to expand sales taxes to replace the income tax and whether citizen-led constitutional amendments should face a higher bar for passage. Kehoe moved four proposed constitutional amendments to the Aug. 4 primary ballot: Amendment 1, renewing a sales […]
Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel suggested Tuesday a recent Supreme Court decision weakening the federal Voting Rights Act invalidated U.S. House districts in Democratic states where most residents belong to a racial minority group.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) responded to complaints from Republicans that Massachusetts has nine Democratic representatives despite the state voting about one-third Republican in the last presidential election by saying that “we have a
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Disagreements between local election officials and Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins continued unabated Friday over the status of which congressional district map will be used in this year’s elections. The 30 counties where voters have been switched to new districts under the gerrymandered map approved last year must update the district assignments before they […]
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from Virginia Democrats for the nation's high court to intervene after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled to strike down a gerrymander scheme that would have redrawn the state's congressional map in favor of Democrats.
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Missouri election officials can’t revise voter rolls to reflect the state’s gerrymandered congressional map because Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ office has not opened the statewide voter registration system to accept the changes, the president of Missouri’s county clerks association said Thursday. Miller County Clerk Clinton Jenkins, a Republican who serves as president of the […]
Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon on Wednesday said she won’t revise voter lists to reflect the gerrymandered congressional districts approved last year until Secretary of State Denny Hoskins decides whether there will be a referendum on the map. The Missouri Supreme Court decision Tuesday denying a request to put the map on hold until a […]
Democratic leaders are torn on what tactics to use in order to best not respond to last week’s Virginia Supreme Court ruling,... Read the full masterpiece
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Control of the U.S. House may run through a courtroom in Missouri. In a red brick courthouse across the street from the state Capitol, the seven black-robed judges of the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed the fate of a Republican gerrymander aimed at ousting U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a 10-term Democrat from Kansas City. […]
The two cases that will determine whether Missourians vote in new congressional districts gerrymandered to favor Republicans or in the districts in place since 2022 are in the hands of the state Supreme Court. The seven judges remained mostly silent throughout arguments in front of a packed courtroom in Jefferson City. Lawyers for the state […]
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones’ office fired off an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States that’s addressed to — lol — the Supreme Court of Virginia.
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The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases Tuesday that will decide whether the state’s gerrymandered congressional map approved in 2025 meets constitutional standards and if a referendum petition puts the map on ice until after an election. If the court decides the first question by ruling the map is unconstitutional, the answer […]
Democrats in Virginia are requesting the Supreme Court's intervention after the Virginia Supreme Court killed a gerrymander scheme that would have redrawn the state's congressional map in the Democrats' favor, prior to the midterm elections.
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Democrats are considering annihilating the current State Supreme Court by passing a law lowering the retirement age from 75 to 54.
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As President Donald Trump tries to assert power over U.S. elections, he has raged on social media, cajoled Republican lawmakers and unleashed the Department of Justice on his political enemies. What has he accomplished with all that effort? Not a lot. Six months before the November midterm elections, the Trump administration’s quest to exercise authority […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that the Virginia Supreme Court "ignored the will of the people" by killing the Democrats' plan to redraw the state's congressional maps in their favor ahead of the midterm elections.
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A Utah Supreme Court justice resigned from her position amid allegations that she had an affair with a lawyer who was involved in a case regarding Utah redrawing its congressional maps.
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House Democrats reacted with alarm Friday after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a redistricting referendum that Democrats had hoped would dramatically reshape the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, dealing what even some Democrats described as a major setback to their effort to retake the House.
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The Virginia Supreme Court just killed the state Democrat Party’s cynical attempt to rig the 2026 midterm election with a blatantly unconstitutional gerrymander scheme.
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In the wake of the Supreme Court decision, Southern statehouses are acting at lightning speed to nullify votes by suspending ongoing elections.
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The U. S. Supreme Court just issued its decision in Louisiana v. Callais. By a 6-3 vote, the conservative majority of the court effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by allowing states to dilute the voting power of minority voters. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. While characterizing the decision as […]
Last December, Justice Alito told Texans they had to vote under an unconstitutional gerrymander because changing maps in December would deprive them of “certainty” before the 2026 midterms. Yesterday, with voting already underway in Louisiana, he rushed the certified copy of the Calais ruling out the door so Southern states can hurry up and redistrict […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says that, in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling against race-based congressional districts, "we're going to have to try to transform the way the Supreme Court has been gerrymandered itself."
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In a devastating blow to what John Lewis called “the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy,” a right-wing, illegitimate SCOTUS finally gutted the Voting Rights Act they’ve long been chipping away at, ensuring communities of color will increasingly be denied “a voice in their own destiny.” By striking down a new Louisiana voting map as a bogus “racial gerrymander,” the court’s…
A Missouri appeals court on Thursday rewrote the ballot summary for a proposed referendum on the state’s newly gerrymandered congressional map, ruling Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ description still included unsupported claims about the map approved by lawmakers last year. The Western District Court of Appeals reversed part of a Cole County ruling and certified […]
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) responded to questions on whether language in the state’s redistricting measure was misleading by stating that “there was a vigorous campaign. Both sides were able to lay
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On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) responded to a question on the timing issues with the state’s redistricting measure by saying the judge who ruled against the measure is an activist. Co-host Brianna
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