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Correspondent Pierce Bruns details the debate over Senate Bill 749 and warns about its implications for North Carolina democracy.

Republicans fighting to preserve Wisconsin legislative electoral maps they drew argue in new legal filings that a key liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice must recuse from the case despite the dismissal of complaints against her related to comments she made about redistricting. Democratic allies asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the Republican maps counter in court filings Monday that the judicial commission's actions are further proof that Justice Janet Protasiewicz can l...

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Assembly has voted to change how the state’s legislative maps are drawn – a major shift in strategy as Republicans face the possibility that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court could throw out the current electoral maps, which give the GOP an advantage.

One Democrat joined Republican lawmakers in passing the legislation, which directs nonpartisan legislative staff to draw new legislative maps.

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin State Assembly has voted to change how the state’s legislative maps are drawn – a major shift in strategy as Republicans face the possibility that the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court could throw out the current electoral maps, which give the GOP an advantage.

Vos is "putting together a panel" of former Wisconsin Supreme Court justices "to advise him on what parameters/criterion would surround impeachment."

Vos and Assembly Republicans unveiled legislation allowing the Legislative Reference Bureau to write new legislative maps.

A US federal court threw out Alabama's newly redrawn electoral map Tuesday, saying it continues to deny fair political representation to Black Americans in violation of a Supreme Court ruling.While one of Alabama's seven congressional districts is majority African American, in 2022 the federal court ordered the state to create a second one, to better reflect the state's 26 percent Black population.

The filing argues Republicans were "unhappy with (the April) electoral result, which they could not prevent through gerrymandering."

Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz called election maps “rigged.” Republicans are calling for her to recuse herself from related cases.