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supreme court [ruled in February](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/california-new-voting-maps-supreme-court) to reject a Republican challenge. If approved by the Florida legislature’s Republican majority, DeSantis’s new maps will, subject to legal challenges, be adopted in time
supreme court [effectively gutted a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling) in Louisiana v Callais, a string of Republican-led states have [scrambled](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/30/states-redistricting-maps-voting-rights-act) [to](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/georgia-brian-kemp-electoral-maps-session) [redraw
minority’s chances of winning a seat in [Utah](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/23/utah-house-voting-map-democrats). The biggest setback came in November, when California voters [approved](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/04/california-prop-50-voting-result) maps that could cost Republicans five House seats, the same
Minority Whip Katherine Clark and California Governor Gavin Newsom, have called on Kiggans to resign. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) also posted a clip of the radio exchange on the social media platform X, writing
ruling to the US fifth circuit court, which many regard as the country’s [most conservative appellate court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/state-voting-rights-acts-supreme-court-ruling). Duncan, 63, whose murder conviction was vacated in 2021 after evidence emerged that police
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
ruling on Wednesday to severely weaken the Voting Rights Act.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/2199x2199+743+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2Fb2%2Ff4e201b5422cb39ae678f1896741%2Fap26119780621816.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus) ### [Elections](https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/) ### [Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5805050/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-black-caucus)
vote is over, Federal Election Commission receipts show that the sole funder of Chicago Progressive Partnership was Elect Chicago Women (ECW), another PAC. It contributed $1m to the partnership. In turn, ECW had raised more
minority communities, can't be identified. Instead, the Trump administration's new policy, which also applies to the [Bureau of Economic Analysis](https://bea.gov/help/faq/1490), leaves both statistical agencies with two options going forward: releasing
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
minority rights. But for 15 years, Banerjee and her party have ruled the state of more than 90 million people, even as the BJP gained ground in a state where it had traditionally been
minorities in voting, housing, policing, and employment and instead reorienting the division around preventing discrimination [against white Americans](https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/2041704099557642361?s=20). Hundreds of attorneys have left the division. ![a man and a woman shake hands