For Americans fed up with partisan redistricting, there’s bad news on the horizon: The gerrymandering war is just heating up. Even while the ink is still drying on the new House maps of the midterm cycle, the 2028 redistricting battle is already taking shape — and it threatens to eclipse the current map-drawing fever in [...]
Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, appears prepared to thrust the state into the nation’s redistricting wars.
The state's primaries are currently scheduled to take place under its current maps on May 19, but the new legislation allows Ivey to set special election dates for districts impacted by the new map.
The Tennessee redraw will only eliminate one Democratic district, but is expected to help give the GOP an edge in the 2026 battle to hold the lower chamber of Congress.
The president helped unseat most of the state lawmakers he targeted after they rebuffed his call to draw new House maps to help Republicans.
Gov. Kay Ivey said a map that would give Republicans an additional House seat cannot be enacted without Supreme Court action, but she wants to be ready if that happens.
The Supreme Court ruled this week that a black majority district in Louisiana was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and narrowed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to bar race-based districts.