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Supreme Court to Consider Ban on Race-Based Voting Districts  Bloomberg.com The Supreme Court just dropped a hint about its next big Voting Rights Act case  Politico Supreme Court raises the stakes in a Louisiana redistricting case  NBC News Supreme Court tees up Louisiana case on whether racial redistricting is unconstitutional  CBS News US Supreme Court poised to assess validity of key voting rights law  Reuters …

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In early July, as President Donald Trump was pushing Texas to redraw its congressional map to better favor …

The proposal may still change before lawmakers consider it further, and members of the committee may still refer new proposals for consideration throughout the entirety of the special session. At the moment, members of that committee are scheduled to discuss the proposed map during a meeting on Friday. Legislative Democrats, however, have suggested they could interrupt the broader process by …

New Texas Congressional map will create five districts Trump carried by double digits  Politico Texas GOP’s redistricting plan alarms Democrats  The Hill How Newsom could redraw career ambitions  Politico Texas Democrats preparing state exodus to block GOP redistricting despite $500 daily fines  Fox News Texas Democrats are fundraising to potentially leave the state to block GOP-backed redistricting  The Texas Tribune Source link

Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it has concluded its investigation of five Northern Virginia school districts (the Divisions) for allegations of discrimination on the basis of sex. OCR determined that the Divisions’ policies, which allow students to access intimate, sex-segregated facilities based on the students’ subjective ‘gender identity,’ violate Title IX of …

California Democrats led by Gov. Gavin Newsom may upend the state’s mandate for independently drawn political districts as part of a brewing, national political brawl over the balance of power in Congress and the fate of the aggressive, right-wing agenda of President Trump and the GOP. The effort being considered by state Democratic leaders is specifically intended to reduce the …

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat who represents a slice of the Rio Grande Valley along the border with Mexico, won his last congressional election by just over 5,000 votes. That makes him a tempting target for Republicans, who are poised to redraw the state’s congressional maps this coming week and devise five new winnable …

Florida’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state’s current congressional redistricting map, rejecting a challenge over the elimination of a majority-Black district in north Florida that was pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The court, dominated by DeSantis appointees, ruled that restoration of the district that previously united Black communities from Jacksonville to west of Tallahassee, or across 200 miles …

Here’s how much Minnesota school districts are each losing after Trump cuts  Minnesota Reformer Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Freezing Billions in Education Grants Just Weeks Before School Year Start  State of California – Department of Justice (.gov) Withheld federal funds affect gifted, vulnerable students, Cincinnati-area districts say  Cincinnati Enquirer Dallas ISD left with $22 million gap after Trump education funding …