Category Archives: redistricting

“How Alabama’s historic congressional map still faces uncertainty amid redistricting battles”

August 11, 2025, 8:26 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Al.com: In this sweltering political August, redistricting has become the hot fight of the moment. It’s driving Texas Democrats to flee their state, hunkering down in Illinois while Republican Gov. Greg Abbott threatens to have lawmakers removed from office.… Continue reading

“How did we get all this gerrymandering? A short history of the Republican redistricting scheme”

August 10, 2025, 11:21 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Dave Daley in The Guardian.

“Inside Democrats’ risky gambit to ‘fight fire with fire’ over election maps”

August 10, 2025, 11:19 amredistrictingRick Hasen

WaPo deep dive: Their exodus, coordinated with top Democrats outside Texas, is the latest flash point in a rapidly spreading fight over election maps — embodying Democrats’ newly combative posture on redistricting. After Texas Republicans initiated an unusual mid-decade… Continue reading

Alabama Dodges Bail-in

August 8, 2025, 9:28 amcourt decisions, redistricting, Voting Rights ActTravis Crum

Yesterday, the three-judge district court in the Alabama congressional redistricting litigation declined to bail-in the State to the VRA’s preclearance regime. You can find the district court’s decision here. Recall that the district court had previously found that Alabama’s… Continue reading

I Was on the Bloomberg Law Podcast with June Grasso: “The Voting Rights Act Is in Jeopardy”

August 8, 2025, 9:04 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Listen here.

The Media’s Unfortunate Greater Interest in the Texas Redistricting Car Wreck than the Supreme Court’s Slow Poisoning of the Voting Rights Act

August 7, 2025, 7:44 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I’ve written about two big election stories this week, the newly ignited redistricting wars starting in Texas and the Supreme Court’s strong signal that it could kill off the Voting Rights Act Section 2 by next June. Judged by… Continue reading

Watch Video of My Appearance on the PBS News Hour Talking about the New Redistricting Wars and the Implications for the Voting Rights Act

August 6, 2025, 4:53 pmredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can watch at this link: Or read the transcript.

My New One at MSNBC Opinion: “Trump started a redistricting war. Only Congress can stop it.”

August 5, 2025, 10:33 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this piece for MSNBC Opinion. It begins: A sudden war over redistricting has broken out in Texas and looks to spread across the country, with California, New York and elsewhere considering tit-for-tat Democratic partisan gerrymanders to… Continue reading

My New One at Slate on the Supreme Court Potentially Killing the Remaining Pillar of the Voting Rights Act: “The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term”

August 4, 2025, 7:27 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Reading the tea leaves from cryptic Supreme Court orders can be perilous business because the justices are not bound by the questions they ask at oral argument, the offhand comments they… Continue reading

“Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map”

August 3, 2025, 4:11 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday in a bid to block passage of a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year, raising the stakes in what’s… Continue reading

“Democratic governors advise strong counteroffensive on redistricting”

August 2, 2025, 1:08 pmchicanery, redistrictingRick Hasen

Politico: A group of Democratic governors is urging its colleagues to get tough in countering Republican-backed efforts to gerrymander Texas’ congressional districts. “It’s incumbent upon Democrat governors, if they have the opportunity, to respond in kind,” outgoing Kansas Gov. Laura… Continue reading

“How the New Texas Map Changes the Outlook for Control of the House”

August 2, 2025, 1:03 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Nate Cohn for The Tilt: So far this election cycle, most analysts have assumed that Democrats will win the House next November. No, it’s not a guarantee. But the party out of the White House usually does well in midterms,… Continue reading

“Texas House panel advances redrawn congressional map that would add more GOP seats”

August 2, 2025, 1:01 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: A Texas House panel on Saturday advanced a draft congressional map aimed at adding five new Republican districts next year over protests from Democrats that the proposal would suppress the votes of people of color. The chamber’s redistricting… Continue reading

“How the Supreme Court enabled the Texas-California redistricting fight”

August 1, 2025, 8:16 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Bob Egelko for the SF Chronicle.

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