Plaintiffs are arguing that the Legislature did not take into account voters’ demands in a successful 2018 ballot initiative that required redistricting in the state to be led by an independent ...

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will ...

Harvard Law School held a discussion between me and Ruth Greenwood about my new book, “Aligning Election Law.” Here are some excerpts from Harvard Law Today’s writeup about the event. “The incredible ...

Two Black voters are arguing that state lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act by “cracking” a majority Black Senate ...

The complaint, filed by McCombie and five voters from districts they consider extremely gerrymandered ... races means that almost half of the state representatives will represent Illinoisans ...

Republicans argue the map is an example of “extreme partisan gerrymandering,” which renders it unconstitutional under state law.

Efforts to challenge partisan gerrymandering in state courts in red states have been mixed at best. In North Carolina, where Republicans effectively gave themselves permanent control of the state ...

Democrats continue to hold a supermajority in the Illinois House thanks to illegally gerrymandered House districts, House Republicans allege in a new lawsuit filed with the Illinois Supreme Court ...

The lawsuit comes after House Republicans failed to gain seats in the two election cycles since a new map was drawn in 2021 ...