The timing of the endorsement coincides with California voters receiving, and returning, their vote-by-mail ballots for the ...
Part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act says that you cannot gerrymander based on the color of someone's skin.
The Democratic Party believes the Voting Rights Act guarantees majority-minority seats proportional to minority populations.
A battle over Louisiana's congressional map led to the racially and politically charged case. Could it impact the Voting ...
Opinion

End Racial Gerrymandering

Nothing in the Constitution requires this. To the contrary, as the Court has warned for decades, using race as the predominant factor in drawing district lines violates the 14th and 15th Amendments’ ...
On today’s Playbook Podcast: Adam Wren and POLITICO White House and foreign affairs correspondent Eli Stokols discuss what to ...
Uncertainty about where we find ourselves in political time—“back to the future,” back to the GOP of 1989, or back to Germany in the mid-1930s—goes beyond what any fact checking could resolve.
GOP officials in North Carolina aren’t just eager to make their gerrymandered map even worse, they’re also peddling a bizarre ...
In Texas, California, and now North Carolina, gerrymandering is presented as a "strategy," but its impact extends beyond one ...
Millions may march this weekend. Some will go home thinking it didn’t matter. Here’s why they’re wrong — and right. Why The ...
The Supreme Court takes up segregated political maps, a temporary remedy that has lingered on.
In a post to X, DeSantis argued that courts are “likely to find racial gerrymandering to be unconstitutional” because the ...