By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Louisiana's Republican-controlled legislature overrode Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards' veto of a new congressional map, ensuring the state will maintain only a single majority-Black district among its six seats. Edwards rejected the map earlier this m...
On Monday, after the legislaturevoted down the commission's proposal, many people assumed they would replace it with an aggressive Democratic gerrymander that would help the party in its quest to flip the U.S. House. But that's not what happened. Instead, ...
At this point, it appears that New York's new map may be able to offset possible losses by Democrats in North Carolina, where the General Assembly approved new congressional boundary lines that could give Republicans three more House seats in 2024, at the expense of Democrats, the A...
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., who leads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and represents the state's 18th Congressional District, told reporters in Philadelphia in March that the party "came out of redistricting with a better map than the one through which we currently ...
A coalition of civil rights groups has filed the first lawsuit in Florida against the recently enacted congressional map put forward by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis that eliminates two districts represented by Black Democrats while giving Republicans the advant
"What this map does is create eight competitive districts in which either party has a reasonable chance to win and three districts in which Republicans are likely to win," McAllister wrote. While the ruling laid out some of the concerns of the new maps, the new map still leaves in place...
Republicans are expected to file a challenge to the district lines in federal court as early as this week. In a statement, Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Val DiGiorgio called the new map "a partisan gerrymandering and power grab by Democrat Party operatives hiding behind robes." ...
When Democrats think about their party’s problems on the political map, they tend to think of President Trump’sabilityto win the White House despite losing the popular vote and Republicans’ potent efforts togerrymandercongressional districts. But their problems extend beyond the Electoral College ...
Map KeyDistrict NumberRepresentativeParty Affiliation 1st District Donald Norcross Democrat 2nd District Jeff Van Drew Republican 3rd District Herbert C. Conaway Jr. Democrat4th District Chris Smith Republican 5th District Josh Gottheimer Democrat6th...
map. In its first round of map-drawing, the commission’s Democratic members and Republican members eachrecommended a different map— both of which werevoted downby the legislature. In its second round of map-drawing, the commissionfailed to submitanymaps to the legislature, with ea...