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A federal judge today denied a request from Black voters seeking to immediately block North Carolina’s new state Senate districts that were enacted last month by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation to create new state legislative maps, advancing a hastily passed Senate bill that nefariously amends maps originally proposed by Gov. Tony Evers (D).
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission’s seeking to halt a redraw of the state’s legislative maps.
In a landslide 86-16 vote, the Louisiana House passed a bill that would create a new congressional map, which features two majority-Black districts, after being ordered to do so by a court order.
Yesterday evening, a group of Wisconsin voters asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reopen previous litigation over the state’s congressional map.
Next week, the Louisiana Legislature will begin a special session to handle several redistricting and election priorities including potential major changes to the state’s Supreme Court.
Today, a group of five Hispanic voters from Mount Pleasant, New York filed the first lawsuit under the New York Voting Rights Act challenging Mount Pleasant’s at-large system for electing members to the town board.
Last Thursday, in a pair of rulings, a federal judge upheld Georgia’s recent Republican-passed legislative and congressional maps — a major defeat for voters in the Peach State.
Michigan and Wisconsin will have new legislative maps in time for the 2024 elections after two separate courts handed down rulings in late December.
Today, North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, Common Cause and individual Black voters filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s new congressional and legislative districts.