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Md. governor to call special legislative session, but not for redistricting
Md. governor to call special legislative session, but not for redistricting

Gov. Wes Moore will call lawmakers back to Annapolis early to chose a new House Speaker. Read more

The Washington Post - Dec 09
Wisconsin congressional redistricting fight heads to 3-judge panels
Wisconsin congressional redistricting fight heads to 3-judge panels

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered that a pair of three-judge panels hear two lawsuits that argue the battleground state’s congressional maps must be redrawn because they unconstitutionally favor Republicans. Conservative justices blasted the Tuesday rulings ordering the creation of the thre... Read more

Apnews - Nov 25
What happens to California's redistricting after Texas' maps were struck down?
What happens to California's redistricting after Texas' maps were struck down?

The court ruling came after California voters formally approved a ballot measure that was introduced to counteract Texas' redistricting. Read more

Cbs News - Nov 19
Texas Redistricting Plan Blocked by Court, Upending GOP Strategy
Texas Redistricting Plan Blocked by Court, Upending GOP Strategy

Texas cannot use a new congressional map drawn by Republicans in hopes of securing the party additional U.S. House seats, a panel of three federal judges ruled Tuesday.The ruling was a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to have GOP lawmakers in multiple states redraw their maps to help the... Read more

Biztoc - Nov 18
Election Day in Northern California: The latest on voting for Prop 50 redistricting measure
Election Day in Northern California: The latest on voting for Prop 50 redistricting measure

Tuesday is when Californians will decide whether to adopt new congressional district maps statewide. Read more

Kcra - Nov 04
Who loses most from redistricting? Clue: it's not Dems or the GOP
Who loses most from redistricting? Clue: it's not Dems or the GOP

By David Patterson Soule, Lecturer of Economics, and Kyle Redican, Director of the Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond After the U.S. census is conducted every 10 years, each state must redraw its congressional districts to... Read more

Raw Story - Nov 02
Ohio approves redistricting map that might add more GOP seats
Ohio approves redistricting map that might add more GOP seats

Ohio's representatives approved a bi-partisan redistricting map that might help Republicans gain more seats, but Democrats OK'd the plan to avoid a worse fate. Read more

Upi - Oct 31
Plaintiffs accuse creator of Utah legislature's Map C of having political data on screen while drawing map in day two of redistricting hearings
Plaintiffs accuse creator of Utah legislature's Map C of having political data on screen while drawing map in day two of redistricting hearings

The man who drew Utah legislature's court-stipulated redistricting map titled Map C spent the majority of the day Friday on the stand in Utah's redistricting case, where the plaintiffs accused him of having political data on his screen while he was drawing the maps. Read more

Salt Lake City - Oct 25
Day one of oral arguments in Utah's redistricting case, judge schedules two more hearings
Day one of oral arguments in Utah's redistricting case, judge schedules two more hearings

The two parties in Utah's redistricting case were in front of a lower court judge Thursday for their first of a two-day evidentiary hearing to determine whether the Utah legislature's newly passed Map C violates the state's citizen-backed anti-gerrymandering law known as Proposition 4. Read more

Salt Lake City - Oct 24
Mitch Daniels on redistricting: 'Someone has to lead in climbing out of the mudhole'
Mitch Daniels on redistricting: 'Someone has to lead in climbing out of the mudhole'

Daniels, a respected figure in the Indiana GOP, argued Indiana lawmakers should listen to the Hoosiers who elected them, not the White House. Read more

Yahoo! News - Oct 23