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With Court Cases and Elections Looming, the Wisconsin Assembly Scrambles to Protect its Gerrymandered Voting Districts

September 13, 2023December 29, 2023

Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate have a 66% veto-proof supermajority. Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly are two votes short of a supermajority. Yet the Governor of Wisconsin is a Democrat. How is that possible? Gerrymandering. And the majority of Wisconsin’s legislators want to keep it that way.

Updates on a Federal Court Rejection of a Stay for Alabama’s Congressional Maps, and an Upcoming SCOTUS Case on South Carolina’s Maps

September 12, 2023December 29, 2023

We have two updates on racial gerrymandering cases today, with another setback to the Alabama legislature’s defiant Congressional maps, and another important case coming up in South Carolina.

Federal Appeals Court Slams Alabama Legislature for Defying U.S. Supreme Court’s Milligan Ruling and Strikes Down Revised Maps

September 6, 2023December 29, 2023

Tuesday, a U.S. District Court of Appeals struck down in the strongest possible terms, the Alabama legislature’s revised Congressional district maps, drawn in defiance of June’s Milligan decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Reports of False Election Officials Intimidating Voters Widens to 13 NY Counties; Texas Eliminates the Election Office in its Biggest County

September 5, 2023December 29, 2023

The scope of the New York election official impersonation story has widened. And in Texas, the state legislature just dismantled its largest county’s election office.