On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that Democrats do not have their hands clean when it comes to gerrymandering and stated that the fight over redrawing congressional maps in Texas is an example of what
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) responded to Republicans arguing that Democratic states have gerrymandered by saying that’s just another way of “saying that they are drawing districts with partisan intent because they
California State Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) was vindicated Thursday when the state agreed that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s special election to approve a gerrymandered congressional map would cost over $200 million.
During an interview with CBS News on Thursday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) responded to a member of the Texas State House arguing that Illinois, New York, and California are gerrymandered in favor of Democrats by pointing to the Epstein files
On Thursday’s broadcast of Chicago PBS station WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that there was “a good-faith effort” with drawing Illinois’ congressional maps, but “It is a partisan process in our state,” but “what
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) responded to Republicans invoking the congressional maps in Illinois by saying that if Texas adopts its proposed maps, “California’s going to follow suit, New York, Illinois. And I
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said that “people are very unhappy with what Trump has done to California,” and that’s one reason for them supporting California redrawing its congressional maps to help Democrats.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) defended Illinois’ congressional maps by arguing that “Just because you’ve got more Democrats than Republicans elected doesn’t mean that it’s an unfair map. The fact of the
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) argued that partisan gerrymandering in Maryland is “so different” from what Texas is doing because the Texas map “is a map directly from Mar-a-Lago. This is not a Texas
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) said that in states where Democrats have some degree of control of the state government, like in Maryland, Democrats should look at redrawing their congressional maps in response to
On Tuesday’s edition of CBS’s “Late Show,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) acknowledged that Illinois’ congressional maps look like kindergartners drew them, but argued that it’s different because they did it after the Census and their gerrymandering isn’t racially discriminatory.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D) responded to a question on how Illinois has drawn its lines by stating that they drew theirs after the Census and they have racial diversity in their
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” host and CNN Chief National Correspondent John King stated that it’s illogical for President Donald Trump to argue GOP representation in the Massachusetts congressional delegation should be proportionate to the share of the vote
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a press release revealing that he would be seeking “judicial orders declaring that runaway Democrats who fail to appear by the Speaker’s deadline have vacated their office.” The press release added that Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows had given Democrats a deadline of Friday, August 8, by which to “return to Texas and present themselves before the House.”
On Tuesday’s “CNN News Central,” Illinois Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Juliana Stratton (D) argued that Illinois isn’t gerrymandered, “we have competitive districts here in Illinois. And the reason why those competitive districts have gone to Democrats is because
On Tuesday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) criticized Texas’ redistricting efforts and said that he is not sure how fair the congressional maps in his home state of Illinois are while noting, “I have an interesting shape of my
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) is taking bold action to block what he calls a “brazen and corrupt” power grab by Gov. Gavin Newsom, introducing federal legislation to ban mid-decade redistricting nationwide and protect the integrity of California’s voter-approved Citizens Redistricting Commission.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Texas State. Rep. Linda Garcia (D) argued that Illinois’ gerrymandering is different from Texas because it’s “within their constitution, within their right.” Guest host Phil Mattingly asked, “One of the things that’s been
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) responded to arguments from Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R) that Democratic states, like Illinois, have gerrymandered their maps by saying that what Texas is doing “is not the
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is reportedly planning to challenge current California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) plan to redraw the state’s congressional map, according to a recent report.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is obsessed with politics, to the point that he is gerrymandering the state’s congressional districts — a waste of time, money, and effort that would be better spent helping fire victims.
On Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) argued that redistricting by Democrats that was favorable to them in states like Illinois, Oregon, and New Mexico is different from what Republicans are doing with redistricting in Texas
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s effort to call a special election to allow for gerrymandering to create more Democratic Party-held congressional districts could cost the state’s taxpayers up to $250 million.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) stated that while Democrats do have to make some changes, President-Elect Donald Trump got a low amount of the popular vote and “Democrats would be in control of
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Wiley Nickel (D-NC) argued that the Republicans in the House “don’t have a mandate from the American public” because “They have a gerrymander that put them in power” and “cost our
The Supreme Court rejected the NAACP’s attempts to redraw South Carolina’s congressional districts to flip a Republican seat to Democrats.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday ruled that there is no legal mechanism to judge claims of “partisan gerrymandering,” giving the Republican-controlled state legislatures the ultimate authority to draw congressional maps without court intervention.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed that gerrymandering worked “pretty good up there in New York” for Republicans. Clyburn said, “We need to win this election down in Georgia, this runoff,
Since leaving the Obama administration in 2015, former Attorney General Eric Holder has gone on to make a living off of heading the so-called National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an organization with the stated purpose of ending partisan gerrymandering.
Gerrymandering efforts by the Democratic Party have thus far proven ineffective in potentially securing electoral wins, signaling a total collapse come time for the November midterm elections, according to a new report.
The state’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals, sided with Republicans on Wednesday and held that the Democrats unconstitutionally gerrymandered the recently proposed congressional map signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D).
The Republican State Leadership Committee’s Judicial Fairness Initiative (JFI) announced in a statement on Wednesday its latest effort to “defend democracy from liberal, activist state court judges across the country” by committing to spend more money on state Supreme Court races in 2022 and electing conservative judges.
A lawsuit was filed Thursday in New York state that alleges the state’s redistricting map is unconstitutional, Breitbart News has learned.
Barack Obama’s former attorney general Eric Holder has successfully thwarted Republican state lawmakers’ redistricting methods throughout the nation by aggressively gerrymandering House districts through the court system.
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday ruled to strike down redistricting maps Republicans passed last November.
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wants the New York legislature to approve an aggressive gerrymander that would leave New York with three Republican and 23 Democrat seats in Congress.
Republicans in Missouri are advocating for a 7-1 congressional map in their favor after the Missouri House approved a 6-2 map that maintains current party divisions.
Actor Ben Affleck reportedly accused Republicans of using gerrymandering to subvert the democratic process and to “dodge the consequences of their actions” during an appearance at a virtual fundraiser headlined by Hillary Clinton and former attorney general Eric Holder.
Redistricting battles in state legislatures across the country have heated up over the past few months, and control of the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2022 midterm elections hangs in the balance.
The nominally “nonpartisan” Iowa redistricting agency released a decidedly Democrat-friendly map on Thursday, setting the stage for a possible rejection by the Iowa Legislature, where Republicans enjoy large majorities in both the State Senate and the State House of Representatives.
