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.
Earlier today, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to pause a lower court decision requiring North Dakota to implement legislative districts that comply with the Voting Rights Act.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will not rehear a case that could have drastically impacted redistricting and precedent under the Voting Rights Act.
The Kentucky Supreme Court today upheld the state’s congressional and state House districts, concluding that while both sets of maps are partisan gerrymanders, neither one violates the Kentucky Constitution.
As it was in previous years, one of the main story lines in 2023 is the staggering record of losses Republican lawyers had in court.
Today, in a 4-3 decision, New York’s highest court ruled that the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) must redraw the state’s congressional map before the 2024 elections.
Last week, Republican attorneys general from Alabama and 12 other states submitted an amicus brief further escalating Republicans’ ongoing attack on the Voting Rights Act.