(ThyBlackMan.com) These are not normal times we are living in when it comes to the partisan gerrymandering war. The state of Virginia successfully passed a referendum that allows Democrats to hit back ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s bombshell decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which basically eliminated the Voting Rights Act as a restraint on partisan gerrymandering, political observers ...

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The redrawing of America’s congressional districts is sure to escalate after the Supreme Court’s decision, with some maps that would have seemed laughable a year ago. By Nate Cohn With the Supreme ...

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Recent Supreme Court decisions have eased the way for states to enact more partisan gerrymanders. Now legislatures are racing to redraw their congressional maps in rare mid-decade redistricting ...

Two weeks have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, pouring rocket fuel on Donald Trump’s pre-midterms partisan gerrymandering blitz. Republican legislators across the ...

Virginia Democrats won a strikingly narrow victory in last week’s snap election referendum, altering the commonwealth’s constitution by reversing a supermajority-supported ban on partisan ...

The political scientist Lee Drutman argues that we should switch to a system of proportional representation and put an end to our “trench warfare politics.” This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra ...

Following each national census, there is a process whereby states redraw the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts to reflect population changes. This process, redistricting, ...