Commission-Approved New York Congressional Map Proposes Minor Changes, Heads to State Legislature
The New York State Redistricting Commission has voted 9-1 in favor of a Congressional map that will head to the state legislature for a vote.
The New York State Redistricting Commission has voted 9-1 in favor of a Congressional map that will head to the state legislature for a vote.
The DLCC is dumping six figures into the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, an election that could have considerable consequences for abortion.
The Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s redistricting plan for congressional seats a second time on Tuesday by a unanimous vote, suggesting the justices might have regarded this map as defiance against the Supreme Court’s previous 5-4 decision against a similar map.
A federal court on Tuesday ruled to strike down redistricting maps signed into law by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) in July after the maps failed to create a second majority-black congressional district.
State courts can override state legislatures on congressional redistricting maps, but only to a limited extent, and federal courts can override both, a divided U.S. Supreme Court held.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday ruled that there is no legal mechanism to judge claims of “partisan gerrymandering,” giving the Republican-controlled state legislatures the ultimate authority to draw congressional maps without court intervention.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday that he would investigate Los Angeles over its new City Council districts after a leaked recording suggested some officials wanted to maximize Latino representation and dilute the power of black voters.
Political analysts changed the rating for Texas’s Thirty-Fourth Congressional District in favor of Republican Rep. Mayra Flores, snubbing Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who is also running in the district.
Supreme Cout Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used her second day on the nation’s highest court to make a bizarre “originalist” argument that claimed that since the post-Civil War Amendments were meant to benefit former slaves, they justify “race-conscious” policies.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) leads his long-time colleague Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) in New York’s Twelfth Congressional District Democrat primary race by nine points in the Emerson College poll.
Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert told Breitbart News that she’s “ready to fight” in Congress for the families in Ohio and the state’s freshly minted Thirteenth Congressional District.
University of Virginia Center for Politics’s analysts identified that the House Republicans are better off with the overall congressional maps following the redistricting process.
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday declined to rule on a lawsuit challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis’s redistricting map, throwing it back to Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal that ruled in favor of the map.
New Hampshire Republicans have launched a “Censure Sununu” petition after the governor vetoed the Republican legislature’s redistricting maps.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has allied himself with Democrats on his state’s redistricting process.
New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Thursday promised to veto another redistricting map proposed by the Republican legislature.
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), proclaiming himself ‘somewhat of an expert’ in being ‘unpopular’ has declared his candidacy for New York’s tenth congressional district.
The Democrats are devastated after failing to gerrymander New York state’s map that would have sliced the Republican delegation in half.
The Republican’s aim of crushing Democrats in the national redistricting battle has been either reduced to a tie or a slight gain.
Former New Mexico Republican Congressman Steve Pearce told Breitbart News this past weekend that the outcome of the redistricting process in the state can affect the next 10-30 plus years after the Democrat-controlled legislature and governor used their position to gerrymander the maps for political gain.
The Florida legislature on Thursday passed the DeSantis-proposed redistricting map to the governor to sign without changes.
‘Screaming’ Florida Democrat lawmakers on Tuesday shut down the state House in protest of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) redistricting map.
Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) claimed on Tuesday the DeSantis-proposed state redistricting map will be rejected in court upon passage by lawmakers.
Republican Conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed New York Assembly Democrats for designing a gerrymandered map that was struck down as unconstitutional on Thursday.
Republicans on Thursday won a huge redistricting lawsuit in New York, which may cost Democrats three to four seats in the U.S. Congress.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday vetoed the state legislature’s congressional map and called for a special session to rectify the standoff with establishment Republicans.
Nevada Democrat Rep. Dina Titus continued to complain she was given the “worst district in the state” after the state’s once-in-a-decade redistricting maps were approved last year.
Democrat Midterm Chief Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) led Republican challenger New York state Rep. Colin Schmitt in an internal hypothetical matchup poll.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose in a letter Thursday advised that the May 3 primary election should not include congressional maps on the ballots, citing the decision by the Ohio Supreme court to reject maps, sending the Ohio Redistricting Commission back to the drawing board for the fourth time.
Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA) announced he will not seek reelection due to the redistricting map recently approved by “the liberal Pennsylvania Supreme Court.”
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday picked a redistricting map that was designed by a Stanford professor and proposed by Democrat plaintiffs.
Donald Trump Jr. exclusively told Breitbart News on Thursday he holds Chris Christie responsible for leading a “totally pathetic” redistricting effort as the co-chair of the National Republican Redistricting Trust (NRRT).
Democrat incumbent Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) is tied with potential Republican challenger Tom Kean, Jr., in a hypothetical matchup, according to the poll taken by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (GQR) Research on behalf of the Democrat’s campaign.
Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove is under fire hours before he is set to speak at a major gathering of Republicans in Missouri, all while his failures on redistricting nationwide become clearer.
The Republican-controlled Florida legislature on Thursday opposed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) redistricted map that would have advantaged Republicans in the November midterms.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) on Wednesday signaled his preparation to cave to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) effort to retain control of the House amid statewide redistricting.
The crime rate has reportedly increased in congressional districts where vulnerable House Democrats who voted to “defund the police” will be running for reelection.
The Kansas Senate voted 27-11 on Tuesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D) veto of the legislature’s proposed congressional map.
Establishment Republicans in Missouri’s Senate are caving to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) continued speakership past the November midterms due to redistricting foibles.
Four Kansas state Senate Republicans on Monday night voted with the Democrats to protect Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D) veto on the state’s redistricted maps.