Louisiana's legislature in January 2024 approved a new map featuring two Black-majority districts. Later that month, a group ...

States must balance complying with a civil rights law that protects the voting power of a racial minority while not ...

The Fulcrum has been covering gerrymandering and its effects for over five years, beginning with a popular piece by David ...

Illinois voters should have the opportunity to send a message to politicians on the most important issues affecting their quality of life and cost of living. Unfortunately, they rarely have that ...

Second, activists can sue to get gerrymandered maps thrown out in court. This tactic was successful this cycle in states such as North Carolina, New York and Ohio.

On Monday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to uphold a lower court ruling striking down Virginia's 2011 House of Delegates map as racially gerrymandered, a remapping of Virginia ...

The complaint, filed by McCombie and five voters from districts they consider extremely gerrymandered, asks the Supreme Court to appoint a special master to draft a new map. Democrats have a 5-2 ...

“This court should ... enjoin the enforcement of the gerrymandered map, and order a special master to draw a new one,” the GOP argued. Ironies abound in the maps’ controversy. Democrats ...