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Politico: The New York City Campaign Finance Board denied Mayor Eric Adams millions of dollars in matching funds for the tenth time Wednesday — and suggested in a strongly worded statement that Adams ...
The Michigan Court of Appeals has tossed out a Republican lawsuit challenging Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s official guidance for many overseas voters. The lawsuit filed by the ...
NPR: With preparations for the 2030 census already underway, President Trump said Thursday he has instructed his administration to start work on a “new” census. According to a social media post by ...
Politico: Alabama must use independently drawn congressional maps that created a second Black-majority district more favorable to Democrats in the state for the rest of the decade, a federal court ...
Texas Republicans plan to ramp up the pressure Friday on Democratic state lawmakers who fled to suburban Chicago and other Democratic areas this week to prevent the GOP from giving themselves five ...
The last time House Democrats held the majority, they made a sweeping package of good-government reforms — including an attempt to end partisan gerrymandering — a centerpiece of their legislative ...
In Common Cause v. Rucho, Chief Justice Roberts pointed to the significant reforms to redistricting that had been taking ...
I’ve written about two big election stories this week, the newly ignited redistricting wars starting in Texas and the Supreme Court’s strong signal that it could kill off the Section 2 by next June.
I did this Q&A with Mike Albertus on the ongoing battle over mid-decade re-redistricting. Here are some excerpts: Texas is trying to redraw its congressional district plan, in the middle of the decade ...
Illinois, a Democratic state, was supposed to be a haven, but Texas Democrats have been unable to escape escalating legal and political threats that have gone further and come faster than many of them ...
Politico: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into a political organization led by former presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke for helping Texas Democrats block newly proposed ...
Politico: Redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms is at the center of the political universe this week, and Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Indiana on Thursday is a big signal the White House ...