A draft of newly drawn proposed congressional districts in California were made public last week, part of a countermeasure to a gerrymandering effort in Texas to secure more Republican-held seats in ...

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California voters passed Proposition 50 on Tuesday, in a major win for Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrats. Under the proposal, districts such as CA-01, CA-03, CA-22, CA-41 and CA-48 are set to ...

The fight over California's new congressional map designed to help Democrats flip congressional House seats will go to court Monday as a panel of federal judges considers whether the district ...

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act has some Democrats asking whether California could go further in ...

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A decision by the Supreme Court about a congressional map in Louisiana could impact the way maps are drawn, including in ...

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