Tag Archives: Gerrymandering

The California state legislature was poised on Thursday to vote on a plan to redraw its congressional boundaries and create five potential new Democratic House seats – an answer to the Republican redistricting push in Texas, sought by Donald Trump, aimed at tilting the map in his party’s favor ahead of next year’s midterm elections. The nation’s two most populous …

Americans worry democracy in danger amid gerrymandering fights, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Most Americans believe that efforts to redraw U.S. House of Representatives districts to maximize partisan gains, like those under way in Texas and California, are bad for democracy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. More than half of respondents – 57% – said they feared that American democracy itself was …

Newsom hails California redistricting package as chance to ‘fight back’ against Republican gerrymandering – US politics live  The Guardian Gavin Newsom thanks you for your attention to redistricting  CNN Your first look inside Newsom’s campaign-in-waiting  Politico Speaker Johnson vows to fight California Democrats’ ‘illegal power grab’  The Hill To counter Texas, California lawmakers take up plan to redraw congressional districts  Los Angeles Times Source link

When politicians redraw congressional district maps to favor their party, they may secure short-term victories. But those wins can come at a steep price — a loss of public faith in elections and, ultimately, in democracy itself. Shaun Bowler That’s the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study led by UC Riverside political scientist Shaun Bowler, published in Political Research Quarterly. The …

TOMORROW: Governor Newsom, California leaders to make major announcement in response to Trump’s gerrymandering attempts  Governor of California (.gov) Newsom says California to draw congressional maps to ‘END TRUMP PRESIDENCY’  ABC News Gavin Newsom and Democrats are placing a risky bet on gerrymandering  CNN This Republican lawmaker has served CA for decades. Newsom’s plan could end his dominance.  CalMatters Newsom says California will draw …

California Gov. Gavin Newsom told Donald Trump on Tuesday that the president had missed the deadline to pull back from creating “illegal crooked maps” in red states to manipulate coming elections. As a result, Newsom, mimicking the president’s all caps messaging style, indicated the nation’s most populous state would “redraw the maps in California to offset the rigging of maps …

The gerrymandering wars are back. Perhaps they never really went away. Extreme GOP gerrymanders have remade American politics over the last 15 years. They have locked Republicans into office in state legislatures nationwide, even in purple states when Democratic candidates win more votes. They have delivered a reliable and enduring edge to the GOP in the race for Congress. Perhaps …

Democracy’s a pretty simple concept: Voters vote for a politician, the politician with the most votes wins, and that politician then represents voters as an elected official. That’s the idea anyway, right? But what if — just what if — instead of voters picking politicians, politicians instead could choose their own voters? And basically guarantee their own outcomes? That’s what’s …

Donald Trump and Republicans are nervous about the 2026 midterms. The president’s polling numbers are very bad (despite what he claims), and it doesn’t seem like Americans are thrilled with his lackeys in Congress who have supported the administration’s assault on Medicaid and other social services, his hardline immigration crackdown, or his chaotic approach to the economy. Democrats only need …

One of the biggest mysteries that has emerged from the Trump-era Supreme Court is the 2023 decision in Allen v. Milligan. In Milligan, two of the Republican justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh — voted with the Court’s Democratic minority to strike down Alabama’s racially gerrymandered congressional maps, ordering the state to redraw those maps to …