From today’s Politico: A court ordered Alabama’s Legislature to redraw its congressional map to give Black voters more power. The Legislature’s response? Not unless we have to. “We are the…
From today’s AP News: Congress in the coming weeks will consider shoring up voting and election laws — efforts that will reflect the vast gulf between Democrats and Republicans on…
From today’s NBC News: The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama that civil rights activists say discriminated against Black voters in a surprise reaffirmation of…
From today’s New York Times: Last year, Democratic justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that maps of the state’s legislative and congressional districts drawn to give Republicans lopsided…
From today’s The Guardian: Al Lawson felt the weight of his victory the night he was elected to Congress in 2016. He was born in Midway, a small town that’s…
From today’s NPR News: Who counts as Black? The thorny question has quietly found its way before the U.S. Supreme Court again, ensnared in a major legal battle over the…
From today’s New York Times: The Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated a congressional voting map in Louisiana that a federal judge had said diluted the power of Black voters. The…
From today’s Politico: Louisiana’s Democratic governor said Monday he will call the Republican-dominated Legislature into special session soon to draw up new congressional district boundaries, now that a federal judge…
From today’s CNN Online: The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an emergency request from three Texas state legislators seeking to quash subpoenas from the US Justice Department and voting rights…
From today’s NPR News Online: Twenty-seven years ago, Martha Chambers was injured in a horseback riding accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down. “I use my mouth to…