The Texas showdown has revived gerrymandering fears as the Supreme Court's 2019 Rucho ruling left redistricting power ...

For now, the Voting Rights Act imposes some restraints, but the court has also signaled it could further weaken the landmark ...

What is gerrymandering, and why has it turned into a political flashpoint in Texas? We explain the saga, in 8 points.

The Supreme Court has ruled that judges are powerless to review partisan gerrymandering. But courts can still enforce the ...

The word “gerrymander" was coined in America more than 200 years ago. What to know about the political manipulation in ...

The disappointment had a bitter epilogue. A Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court found in February of 2022 that ...

Texas lawmakers' drawing new congressional boundaries to advantage Republicans has ignited a national scrum over ...

Most notably, in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), the Republican justices held that federal courts may not hear suits challenging partisan gerrymanders. Among other things, Rucho enables tactics like ...

A group of Texas Democrats is sheltering in Illinois to stop a Republican redistricting effort back home. See how Pritzker ...

Texas asked the Supreme Court to intervene, and it did. In September 2012, the High Court stayed the Texas court’s orders, and later set the case for oral argument.

This Supreme Court term is all about gerrymandering, both partisan and now racial. But Abbott v. Perez is the only race-related gerrymandering case that it will hear this term.

Texas’ legal battle is the third gerrymandering case the court has heard this term. Unlike this case, which is centered on racial gerrymandering, cases in Wisconsin and Maryland were focused on ...