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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is promising a sweeping Democratic response after last week’s Virginia Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a congressional map favoring Democrats and handed Republicans a significant advantage ahead of the midterm elections. In a letter sent Monday to House Democrats, Jeffries said the party would pursue …

The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down the voter-approved redistricting amendment, upholding a lower court ruling that had declared the measure unconstitutional less than 24 hours after last month’s special election and briefly halted its implementation. The high court found that the amendment itself was flawed because lawmakers …

The Tennessee Legislature passed a new U.S. congressional map that will favor Republicans in all nine of the state’s districts ahead of this year’s midterm election. The bill passed Thursday and is expected to be quickly signed by Gov. Bill Lee, as state lawmakers faced a tight deadline to get …

Federal agents searched the office of a prominent Virginia Democratic lawmaker Wednesday as part of a long-running public corruption investigation tied to one of the state’s most influential political figures. The FBI confirmed that law enforcement activity took place at the Portsmouth office of Virginia state Senate President Pro Tempore …

Republican governors in Alabama and Tennessee have called special legislative sessions to redraw congressional maps, escalating a nationwide redistricting fight after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. In Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey summoned lawmakers back to Montgomery beginning Monday to consider new maps …

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday he will not redraw the state’s congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, breaking with a growing Republican push across the South following a sweeping Supreme Court decision on voting rights. The outgoing Republican made clear he would not delay Georgia’s May 19 …

The Florida Legislature has approved a new congressional map sent to them just two days earlier by Gov. Ron DeSantis that could give Florida Republicans up to four new congressional seats in the November midterm elections. The Florida Senate voted, 21-17, Wednesday afternoon to approve the map. Four Republicans – …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday unveiled a proposed congressional map that could give Republicans up to four additional U.S. House seats, launching a high-stakes mid-decade redistricting effort ahead of the November elections. The proposal, released by the governor’s office, would create 24 Republican-leaning districts and four Democratic-leaning districts. Florida’s …

Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment allowing mid-decade congressional redistricting, a move expected to dramatically reshape the state’s political map and potentially shift its congressional delegation from a closely divided 6-5 split to a heavily Democratic-leaning 10-1 advantage. By 8:50 p.m., the measure passed by a vote of …

A Virginia circuit court on Tuesday struck down a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at giving lawmakers the option to redraw congressional districts mid-decade, dealing a major setback to Democratic legislative leaders who say the change is needed to respond to partisan gerrymandering in some Republican-led states and had hoped to …

Maryland lawmakers moved rapidly Friday to advance a new congressional redistricting plan after a gubernatorial advisory panel narrowly recommended changes that would significantly reshape the state’s lone Republican-held district. Just three days after the Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Commission voted 3–2 to recommend a new “concept map,” legislation based on that …

The Republican-dominated Indiana Senate spurned months of demands from President Donald Trump as it voted 31-19 on Thursday to reject a redrawing of the state’s congressional maps. The final outcome remained uncertain until 21 Republicans joined all 10 Democratic senators in blocking the redistricting plan. The proposal didn’t even win …

In a major win for President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers, the Supreme Court on Thursday granted Texas’ emergency application to use a new congressional map drawn to increase GOP representation in next year’s midterm elections, pausing a lower-court ruling that had found the plan unlawfully relied on race. The …

A panel of federal judges on Wednesday allowed North Carolina to move forward with a mid-cycle congressional map engineered to flip a key Democratic seat, underscoring the scope of the Republican Party’s aggressive redistricting campaign ahead of the 2026 midterms. The unanimous decision lets the GOP-controlled legislature use a map …

Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the state’s request to pause a court ruling that would have required using the lines legislators drew in 2021. The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use …