How Supreme Court decisions will help determine if House flips blue in 2024 | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – Just five months after winning the House, Republicans are already looking to defend their majority in 2024. A Supreme Court decision requiring Alabama to add an additional majority-minority district will likely lead to an additional Democratic pickup there, and in Louisiana, which had similar Congressional map issues. Amy Walter with The […]
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Deadline today in the process of redrawing Alabama’s Congressional maps | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Today is the last day for the general public to make comments as Alabama lawmakers redraw the State’s Congressional maps. Governor Kay Ivey set July seventeenth to meet over the issue. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with a three-judge panel that the current maps likely violated the Voting Rights Act. The issue is diluting the […]
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Louisiana may follow Alabama in court ordered boost to black voting power | #elections | #alabama
The Supreme Court has lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to redraw congressional districts to boost Black voting power. Monday’s order follows the court’s rejection earlier in June of a congressional redistricting map in Alabama and unfreezes the Louisiana case, which had been on hold pending the Alabama decision. […]
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‘Big Win for Democracy’ as SCOTUS OKs Redrawing of Rigged Louisiana Congressional Map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Democracy defenders in Louisiana and beyond on Monday applauded the U.S. Supreme Court for allowing the redrawing of a racially gerrymandered congressional map—a move that will add a second majority-Black district in the Southern state where 1 in 3 residents are African-American. The Supreme Court rejectedArdoin v. Robinson, Republican Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin’s […]
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GOP supermajorities, like Alabama’s, push controversial policies to the edge | #elections | #alabama
A historically high number of supermajorities in state legislatures has pushed laws further to the edge on abortion, climate and transgender issues. Twenty-eight states have legislatures with majorities so large they could override a gubernatorial veto without any help from the opposing party. That’s the most in at least 40 years. Two-thirds of those are […]
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AP: Alabama SCOTUS decision may “breathe new life” into other voting rights cases | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
More changes could be coming to voting districts in some states. The 2022 elections marked the first using new districts for Congress and state capitols that were drawn from updated census data. But they could be short-lived in some places. That’s because court challenges could force some states to redraw districts again before the 2024 […]
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Black Alabama voters score stunning Supreme Court victory against racist gerrymandering – People’s World | #elections | #alabama
Evan Milligan, center, plaintiff in Merrill v. Milligan, an Alabama redistricting case, speaks with members of the press following oral arguments outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 4, 2022. Standing behind Milligan are Milligan’s counsel Deuel Ross, from left, Letetia Jackson, Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel […]
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Democrats, GOP want the status quo. We need to move Forward. | #alaska | #politics
Whitman is a former Republican governor of New Jersey and co-chair of the Forward Party. The two dominant political parties in America don’t agree on much, but there is one thing they agree on: The system should be set up to help them maintain their power. From first-past-the-post voting and gerrymandering to limiting citizen-powered ballot […]
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Partisan redistricting gave Republicans control of the House. Will a conservative Supreme Court take that advantage back? | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
In the upcoming Moore v. Harper case, the Supreme Court will effectively be deciding between empowering state legislatures in state elections and protecting the gerrymandering advantage that delivered the narrow 2023 GOP House majority. It cannot do both. Although the votes are not final, it seems likely Project REDMAP, a well-funded effort launched in 2010 to […]
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Looming ‘Merrill v. Milligan’ Supreme Court decision could affect future election procedures | #elections | #alabama
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Midterm elections are days away but when it comes to future elections a looming Supreme Court decision could have some effect on them. Merrill v. Milligan would be the second Alabama case decision impacting voting procedures, the first being Shelby v. Holder, in 2013. The Shelby v. Holder decision allows certain […]
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