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A coalition of civil rights groups has filed the firstlawsuitin Florida against therecently enacted congressional mapput forward by GOP Gov.Ron DeSantisthat eliminates two districts represented by Black Democrats while giving Republicans the advantage in as many as 20 of 28 seats. The GOP-controlled...
In most states, lawmakers control the process, allowing them to manipulate districts to create partisan advantage in a practice known as gerrymandering. Only four states, including heavily populated Florida, have not finalized new congressional maps ahead of November's midterm elections,...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will have to move quickly to comply with a court order to draw new congressional districts for the 2024 elections, and judges indicated Friday that they will give legislators until July 21 to adopt a new map.
Texas, North Carolina and Florida have Republican legislatures in control of redistricting, and each state will add at least one congressional seat. Both Democrats and Republicans believe these legislatures will try to "gerrymander," or draw lines in their political favor, enough districts to flip...
In Alabama, GOP lawmakers packed most Black voters into only one of seven congressional districts, even though Blacks make up 27% of the state’s population. In Louisiana, where nearly one-third of the state’s population is Black, GOP lawmakers approved a map containing five majority-white ...
E&C is a major player because the budget plan would task it with cutting $880 billion — reductions that it will likely only find in Medicaid. It doesn’t help that Republicans are returning from a week in their districts where several faced a backlash from constituents over Trump and Elon ...
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
If Democrats were to capture control of the House of Representatives in 2018, they needed to turn Florida's Congressional Districts 26 and 27 from "red to blue." Voters in these two districts voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump for president in 2016, while handily ...