gerrymandering

A new study shows that the Republican Party is gaining a significant advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives through partisan gerrymandering. The skewed maps are giving Republicans a 16-seat advantage in Congress. Five of those extra seats are coming right out of Texas.

The state's highest court reversed a lower court decision that found the Republican-led Kansas Legislature drew a map that was racially and politically gerrymandered.

The Kansas Supreme Court will consider if district court judge correctly followed the state constitution when ruling the Republican-led Kansas Legislature drew a racially and politically gerrymandered congressional map.

Elected leaders at the county, city and school board level have largely avoided the scrutiny targeted at Republicans in the state legislature earlier this year when they drew state and federal lines to overwhelmingly favor white Texans. But the stakes are high in the fight over local district boundaries as well.

Democrats need to win a net nine seats to claim a majority of the Texas House of Representatives.

The Supreme Court essentially approved the practice in a recent ruling. Will Democrats still make good on promises to take partisanship out of redistricting?

Voting groups say a list of locations Texas lawmakers proposed for public hearings ahead of the next round of political redistricting will give smaller...

Recently leaked documents could impact an ongoing federal lawsuit challenging Texas' redistricting efforts.

Texas begins redistricting in two years. The process will slice up Texas into political districts. When the districts are redrawn to benefit a...

Texas Democrats are campaigning on the issue of how lawmakers draw political maps ahead of the 2018 elections. They say partisan gerrymandering is...