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A lawsuit was filed Thursday in New York state that alleges the state’s redistricting map is unconstitutional, Breitbart News has learned.

Guru of redistricting and Senior Editor of the Cook Political Report Dave Wasserman announced on Thursday Republicans have flubbed their chance of dominating the nationwide redistricting battle that will ultimately shape Joe Biden’s presidency. 

Former Republican Senate candidate John James announced on Monday he is running for the open congressional seat in Michigan’s 10th District, which has been redrawn into a competitive battleground ahead of the November midterm elections.

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.

Tennessee’s once-in-a-decade redistricting maps are expected to be approved by the state’s General Assembly sometime this week, and Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper (TN) has reportedly considered retirement instead of running in a tough reelection.

Republicans across the nation are losing the redistricting battle that will shape November’s midterm elections and ultimately Joe Biden’s presidency.

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.

Democrat activist Huwaida Arraf, who cofounded the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM), is running for Congress in Michigan’s Tenth District, which was redrawn into a competitive battleground during the redistricting process.

Democrat and U.S. Navy veteran Neil Smith announced he will attempt to unseat Democrat incumbent Rep. Eliane Luria (VA) in the June primary as she bids for a third term in a historically battleground district.

Tennessee Speaker of the House Cam Sexton (R-Crossville) said on Monday that a new map of the boundaries of the state’s nine congressional districts will be unveiled at a House committee hearing on Wednesday.

Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) announced her reelection bid Thursday in Virginia’s redrawn Second Congressional District, a historically battleground district.

Former California Rep. Harley Rouda announced he would suspend his congressional campaign after Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) announced she would run in the same district following the state’s redistricting process.

Due to redistricting, two Michigan House Democrats in neighboring districts will go head to head in the 2022 midterm primary.

Democrat Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) announced she will run for reelection in Virginia’s new seventh congressional district — which she currently represents — after the redistricting maps were unanimously approved, putting her current residence outside the new lines.

Virginia’s two Democrat senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, say a “heavy weight” is being placed on “the three women in the delegation,” after a new proposed congressional map removes two of the Commonwealth’s female U.S. Representatives from their districts and significantly alters another’s district.

Former Rep. Harley Rouda (D-CA), who was planning to run to regain the seat he lost  last year, may retire after incumbent Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) announced her intention to run in the same congressional district.

The New Jersey Redistricting Commission approved new political maps on Wednesday that bolster the Democrat Party’s strength within some regions of the state.

The Republican Party could possibly control six out of Arizona’s nine congressional seats after the state’s redistricting commission approved a new map on Wednesday.

Another Republican who voted for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in January has seen his district redrawn in a way that makes it more difficult for him to win reelection next year — this time, Rep. David Valadao (R-CA).

California’s “independent” redistricting commission has done it again, drawing a new congressional map Monday that favors incumbent Democrats, hurts Republicans, and removes a district from Los Angeles, the weaker of the state’s political cities.

Nevada Democrat Rep. Dina Titus unloaded on the state’s redistricting process during a town hall on Wednesday with the AFL-CIO union members, according to the Nevada Current.

The Michigan Press Association and three media outlets filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in response to the Michigan redistricting commission’s refusal to release records from a meeting it had in October, as well as legal documents the commission claims are protected by “attorney-client privilege.”

The Florida legislature released a redistricting map Monday afternoon that indicates Rep. Stephanie Murphy’s (D-FL) current seat will be essentially deleted, while Republicans stand to gain two seats. 

Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) signed a bill into law on Friday that sets new boundaries for congressional districts in Ohio and could add an additional GOP seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.

Montana Democrat Caucus Chair, state Rep. Laurie Bishop (D-Livingston), announced Wednesday she is suspending her campaign for the state’s new congressional seat due to redistricting to run for reelection in her seat in the state House.

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 legislative staff of the Florida State Senate Committee on Reapportionment released four draft maps of redistricting plans for congressional and state legislative districts on Wednesday that appear to maintain the status quo in the partisan breakdown of the state’s Congressional delegation.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), one of ten Republican representatives to vote for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump and one of two Republicans to sit on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s partisan committee investigating the January 6 incident at the Capitol, announced his retirement Friday after the Illinois Democrats released its redistricting maps.

Democrats in the Illinois state legislature released their proposed new congressional district maps, which place Republican Adam Kinzinger in a Democratic district and force him to run in 2022 against an incumbent who is likely to defeat him.

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), chairman of the House Budget Committee and leading the talks on infrastructure, announced on Tuesday that he would not be seeking reelection. 

The Iowa State Senate resoundingly rejected a pro-Democrat redistricting map on Tuesday in a 32 to 18 vote.

Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives Pat Grassley has not yet indicated whether he will support or oppose a redistricting plan submitted by the state’s Legislative Services Agency (LSA) that is favorable to Democrats when it comes to a vote in the Iowa House of Representatives and the Iowa State Senate on Tuesday, giving rise to some Republicans now calling him “Pelosi Pat.”

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is considering a redistricting map ahead of the 2022 midterm elections that would be overly beneficial and lopsided toward helping Democrats retain their U.S. House majority, Breitbart News has learned.

Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives Pat Grassley has come under fire from conservatives for failing to oppose a Democrat-friendly redistricting plan proposed by the Iowa agency responsible for drawing the first draft of new congressional and state legislative boundaries.

Republicans fighting to control the House of Representatives in the midterms may be able to pick up another seat in Colorado after the independent redistricting commission passed its new congressional map proposal late Tuesday.

Democrats are trying to poach half as many House seats from Republicans in 2022 as they did in 2020 — from 39 to 21.