The US Supreme Court late Tuesday gave Alabama a green light
to use an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map that a lower court said was “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”
The unsigned decision, from which the high court’s three liberal justices dissented,
enables Alabama’s Republican-dominated government to replace its current congressional map, which has two majority-Black districts,
with a map that the US Supreme Court struck down in 2023. T…
Louisiana Republicans pass gerrymandered map that eliminates majority-Black district (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/29/louisiana-republicans-pass-gerrymander-landry-00942820
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Left-wing Democratic primary wins pose a test for a Jeffries speakership
There are warning signs for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
-- who already faces frustration from the Democratic base that he is not fighting back hard enough against Trump.
If Democrats win only a narrow majority in the heavily gerrymandered chamber in November,
it will give each vote outsize importance
and Jeffries critics more opportunities to influence policy.
Two of the thr…