3 weeks ago - Nelson resisted any contention that Section 2 or race-based redistricting should have a similar end point.

September 29, 2025 - Like many other states in the American South after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, federal judges and the United States Supreme Court have struck down Texas's congressional and legislative districts on multiple occasions, including in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

2 days ago - The case is likely to hinge on whether race or partisanship was the predominant factor in drawing the new maps. A Supreme Court ruling in 2019 established that federal courts are powerless to hear claims about partisan gerrymandering, essentially allowing lawmakers to carve up districts for political gain.

Since the 2000 census, there has been renewed mid-decade congressional redistricting activity by states. One widely known example of mid-decade redistricting occurred in Texas in 2003, when the state legislature redrew initial congressional boundaries that were adopted by a federal court in 2001.

3 weeks ago - The first version — which included only one majority-Black district — was blocked by a federal court and later by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022. Both courts sided with the NAACP voters, and the Fifth Circuit ordered the state ...

The cases included on this page are grouped by decade. Use the links below to learn more about the redistricting cases decided in each of the decades listed: 2020s: Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, Moore v. Harper, Merrill v.

The Brennan Center tracks and analyzes ongoing litigation about redistricting. ... When congressional and legislative maps are redrawn each decade, they often are manipulated to discriminate against communities of color or for partisan gain. Courts, both state and federal, play an important role in keeping these practices in check.

3 weeks ago - The exchange prompted Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to jump in and say that also at issue in the Alabama case was whether to change the way courts look at the Voting Rights Act in redistricting.

The rules of the game have been laid down by the United States Supreme Court. In the 1960s, the Court said that everyone must play, and must redraw their legislative and congressional districts every ten years to take account of changes in the population recorded by the federal census.

3 weeks ago - The Supreme Court seems poised to strike down race-based redistricting as unconstitutional, or at least rein in the practice, court experts told The Epoch Times. The outcome of the high-profile racial gerrymandering case of Louisiana v. Callais ...

4 days ago - The Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965, prohibits redistricting plans that have the effect or intent of preventing any racial, ethnic or language minority group from being able to elect candidates of their choice.

An overview of significant Supreme Court decisions on redistricting from the last five decades. The cases are grouped into four categories: population, a case relating to using a redistricting commission, cases relating to race and cases relating to partisanship.

3 weeks ago - 15, 2025, 11:20 a.m. ET ... Justice Sotomayor’s questioning revealed a common tension in redistricting: politics vs. race. In 2019, the Supreme Court ruled in Rucho v. Common Cause that federal courts would no longer be the arbiters of partisan redistricting, effectively blessing political considerations in gerrymandering.

In addition to various state processes, the legal framework for congressional redistricting involves constitutional and federal statutory requirements. Interpreting these requirements, in a series of cases and evolving jurisprudence, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued rulings that have significantly shaped how congressional districts are drawn and the degree to which challenges to redistricting plans may succeed.

3 weeks ago - A federal court previously ruled that the 2022 congressional map violated Section 2 by diluting the strength of Black voters. This prompted the state legislature to redraw the maps to create the second majority-Black district.

6 days ago - Yes: Texas’s legislative redistricting decisions made before 2025 can be and have been litigated, especially in federal court under federal civil‑rights statutes and constitutional claims; ongoing consolidated litigation demonstrates courts are willing to hear and potentially enjoin or remedy mid‑decade maps.

3 weeks ago - In a process called redistricting, the boundaries of legislative districts across the United States are reconfigured every decade to reflect population changes as measured by the national census.

3 weeks ago - That kind of decision coming amid the ongoing mid-decade congressional redistricting war between Republicans and Democrats, Ellis adds, could set the stage for a true "free-for-all" — pointing also to the court's 2019 ruling that partisan gerrymandering is not reviewable by federal courts.

August 4, 2025 - Partisan gerrymandering poses "political questions beyond the reach" of federal courts, the court ruled.

September 4, 2025 - When midcycle redistricting occurs, it’s usually because courts have thrown out the previous maps for violating state or federal law. In fact, 36 of the 40 midcycle redistricting changes since 1970 have either been made in response to a court ...