The Fulcrum has been covering gerrymandering and its effects for over five years, beginning with a popular piece by David ...

Opponents of a redrawn legislative district map say it unconstitutionally sorts voters by race. Others say the same of the ...

McCombie’s lawyers rejected that idea citing case law in which redistricting still allowed representatives to finish out the ...

States must balance complying with a civil rights law that protects the voting power of a racial minority while not discriminating against other voters.

A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had argued the state ...

Louisiana's legislature in January 2024 approved a new map featuring two Black-majority districts. Later that month, a group ...

The state had been sued for not including enough majority-Black districts in its six-district congressional map and now it was ... being accused of racial gerrymandering. He called states ...

The Supreme Court questioned Monday whether Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district went too ...

A Duke University professor spoke at the Memorial Union Tuesday about the impact of gerrymandering on fairness and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is evaluating Louisiana's electoral map after it added a second Black-majority congressional district, ...

The case tests the balancing act states must strike in protecting the voting power of a racial minority while not ...