SCOTUS Smacks Down MAGA Map of Missouri – Mother Jones

In a final ruling, the Supreme Court has blocked Missouri Republicans’ gerrymander…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/scotus-blocks-missouri-map-gerrymander-kavanaugh-republicans-house/

 

Supreme Court appears to kill GOP redistricting hopes in Missouri - POLITICO

The justices’ ruling hands a major win to Democrats, who fought nearly a dozen legal battles with Missouri Republicans over the legality of the GOP-led gerrymander.

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/10/supreme-court-missouri-redistricting-midterms-01070432

Missouri congressional maps thrown into chaos after conflicting court rulings

Federal judge says old maps cannot be used in November election, hours after supreme court blocked redrawn maps…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/supreme-court-ruling-missouri-gop-congressional-maps

 

The Big Flip in Texas

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6TbLem-JpvU

 

Missouri supreme court throws out new congressional maps backed by Trump

The decision Thursday marks a rare setback for Republicans in a national redistricting battle. Republicans had hoped Missouri’s new congressional boundaries could help them win an additional seat and hold on to their slim House majority in the midterms. The ruling still could be appealed to the US supreme court...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/missouri-supreme-court-trump

 

Florida Republicans worry they won’t capture big redistricting gains - POLITICO

Republican hopes for Florida were much higher at the start of a tit-for-tat cycle that saw Republican- and Democratic-led states across the country engage in mid-decade redistricting...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/florida-house-gop-redistricting-midterms-01060473

Proportional representation has majority support in new poll : NPR

Earlier this summer, about 500 democracy and legal experts sent a letter to Congress urging members to consider proportional representation as a solution to the redistricting brinksmanship set off by President Trump last year. 

 "There should be little doubt that the single-member district system is failing to deliver fair and representative outcomes," they wrote. "We urge Congress to adopt a proportional system of representation, solving the gerrymandering problem at its source."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5920312/proportional-representation-poll

 

Missouri rejects citizens’ bid for vote on Trump-backed redistricting plan

Supporters of the referendum had submitted hundreds of thousands of petition signatures in an effort to force a November election on whether to use a new US House map approved by the Republican-led state legislature. But the Republican secretary of state, Denny Hoskins, asserted on Tuesday that the petition was void because congressional redistricting plans cannot be subject to voter referendums… 

“Secretary of State Hoskins is making a last desperate attempt to silence the people’s voice in Missouri,” Richard von Glahn, executive director of People Not Politicians Missouri, said in a statement, while asserting there were more than enough signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/missouri-redistricting-plan-vote

 

Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds

A new analysis of Black voters in the south indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left. 

After the supreme court effectively gutted section 2 of the Voting Rights Act protections in late April, Republican legislatures across the south rapidly pushed to disenfranchise Black voters by redrawing congressional maps. Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama all immediately worked to pass new maps, while the Mississippi governor has said that he wants legislators to redraw maps before the upcoming midterm elections...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/black-voters-south-republican-maps

 

Georgia Republicans scrap current plans to redistrict ahead of 2028 - POLITICO

Republicans fear a redraw could backfire and become a top political issue in key Senate and governor races this November...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/17/georgia-republicans-table-2028-redistricting-00965483 

Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district

Alabama can use a redrawn congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts in this year’s midterm elections, the US supreme court ruled in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, another major blow to Black voters and a win for Republicans...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/supreme-court-alabama-map

 

Republicans are moving to eliminate majority-Black districts in the South

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uHowAyWYJDs

 

Louisiana Republicans pass gerrymandered map that eliminates majority-Black district - POLITICO

Friday’s result is a major win for Landry and for President Donald Trump, further extending Republicans’ gains through mid-decade redistricting this cycle…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/29/louisiana-republicans-pass-gerrymander-landry-00942820

 

Clyburn’s seat survives for now as South Carolina Republicans buck Trump on redistricting - POLITICO

South Carolina Republicans defied President Donald Trump and blocked a redistricting measure that would have drawn out the state’s lone Democrat, Rep. Jim Clyburn. 

The move Tuesday all but kills their chances of flipping that seat for 2026. It’s possible the GOP will still draw out Clyburn before 2028...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/south-carolina-redistricting-fails-clyburn-trump-00936000

Federal court blocks Alabama’s midterm gerrymandering plan, a blow for Republicans - POLITICO

The three-judge panel blocked the state from reimplementing its 2023 congressional maps they found as “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/alabama-redistricting-2026-election-order-00935834

‘They may draw racist maps, but we are the south’: thousands rally in Alabama for Black voting rights

People came to Montgomery by bus, car and plane to march on the state capitol with local and national leaders…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/alabama-black-voting-rights-protest 

 

That was grotesque': Sen. Cory Booker excoriates Fox host's 'disgusting'...

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Whkm-VdwCGk

 

Judge weighs effort to block new Florida congressional map - POLITICO

“The evidence here is staggering,” asserted Christina Ford, a lawyer with the Elias Law Group. “This case is simple because the violations of the Fair Districts amendment were announced in a live legislative session for everyone to see. This case is simple because defendants do not attempt to justify the lines and districts that they drew.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/florida-redistricting-2026-court-case-00923923 

Texas Supreme Court rejects bid to oust House Democrats who fled state over redistricting - POLITICO

“Abbott sent us threats. He sent lawyers. He sicced his lapdog, Ken Paxton, on us,” Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu said in a statement. “He asked the highest court in Texas to remove elected Democrats from office because we refused to be bullied into helping him pass a rigged map for Donald Trump. Today, the Republican-controlled Supreme Court said: no. The Constitution does not let a Governor erase voters’ choices when their choices are inconvenient to him.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/texas-supreme-court-democrats-redistricting-00923616

 

Supreme Court rejects bid to restore Virginia congressional map favoring Democrats | PBS News

The Supreme Court typically doesn't intervene in state court proceedings unless they present an issue of federal law. Virginia Democrats had hoped to persuade the justices that the Virginia court misread federal law and Supreme Court precedent that hold that, even if early voting is underway, an election does not happen until Election Day itself...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-rejects-bid-to-restore-virginia-congressional-map-favoring-democrats