The Supreme Court ruled that Texas can redraw its electoral map to benefit Republicans. Last month a lower court struck down the state’s gerrymandering attempt, finding that it discriminated against black and Latino voters.

Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another. Good-government groups say that gerrymandering lets politicians choose their constituents,

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state and prompted a challenge by ...

Indiana has become the latest battleground in a growing national clash over redistricting, as Republicans and Democrats race to redraw congressional maps to alter the balance of power in Washington. Lawmakers in California and Texas, the two most populous ...