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Republicans push redistricting efforts in numerous states, Democrats are working on their own strategy in response to the Supreme Court ruling. The National Democratic Redistricting Committee is leading the Democratic Party's strategy. The committee
Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that its map was unconstitutional, blowing a hole in the Voting Rights Act. That’s giving Republicans the narrowest of windows to gerrymander one or two new seats before
Redistricting debate shifts to South Carolina as Republicans seek clean sweep of House seats – US politics live Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. **An effort to reshape South Carolina’s congressional districts
Plan during debate before its passage in the Florida Senate. **Mike Stewart/AP** Mike Stewart/AP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida lawmakers have approved a new Congressional map that could position Republicans to win four additional U.S. House seats
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plan went awry in the months that followed, when Indiana senate Republicans [refused to join](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/indiana-voting-map-republicans-trump) in the gerrymandering campaign, a bipartisan commission in Ohio enacted new maps that put Democratic incumbents
Supreme Court ruling that [weakened minority protections](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling) under the federal Voting Rights Act. The South Carolina state senate is composed of 34 Republican senators and 12 Democratic senators. Fourteen Republicans voted with
rules, the other follows, until courts or voters draw the final line.” ## Democrats gain – for now Trump has not been timid about his desire to redraw state congressional maps to benefit his Republican Party
Supreme Court, which [reserved the right to weigh in](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/how-virginias-top-court-might-decide-democrats-gerrymandering-fate-00777364) on the new map after the election, voids Democrats’ effort. “This close margin reinforces that Virginia is a purple state that shouldn
plan to guide tankers through the strait of Hormuz was ditched just days after it was launched, apparently because [Saudi Arabia refused to let the US](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/trump-project-freedom-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz) use its bases and airspace
supreme court rendered ineffective a major section of the civil rights law that prevented racial discrimination, Shane Massey, the Republican majority leader in South Carolina’s senate, argued in an extraordinary address that doing
ruling is ‘red meat’ to Republicans in south, says Black lawmaker targeted by gerrymander The supreme court decision that effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA) “was red meat to the Republican legislators
Republican-led Southern states race to redo their congressional maps after the U.S. Supreme Court [weakened the Voting Rights Act's](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting) protections against racial discrimination, the decision's effects may be felt