Cleo Fields

Thousands of protesters are rallying Friday on the National Mall in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm elections, following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that civil rights groups have condemned as detrimental to Black Americans

The additions bring the NRCC's total target list to 36 Democrat-held seats nationwide

The changes could prove pivotal in determining whether President Donald Trump faces a Democratic-controlled House equipped with subpoena power and oversight authority during the final two years of his presidency, or continues governing with Republican control of both chambers of Congress

To get there, Ms. Chism, 65, left Mississippi before dawn, drove to Memphis and rode a bus five hours to Montgomery with her 8-year-old great-nephew Carson in tow

Louisiana Legislature Passes Map Erasing Black-Majority District

Democrats are beside themselves, watching what Republicans are doing on redistricting — especially in the South

Jacob Russell, a chemistry student at Louisiana State University, arrived at his Baton Rouge polling place on Saturday and cast his votes as planned: picking candidates in the Senate and House primary elections and weighing in on a series of constitutional amendments

Instead, Mr. McMaster’s executive order was consistent with his past statements: that the General Assembly needed to fully debate and examine the matter of redistricting before the midterms in November

Watters’ comments come after President Trump pushed Republican-led states to gerrymander their districts to favor Republicans in upcoming elections

Republicans may gain up to 12 House seat via redistricting

The move came five days after the Republican-controlled Tennessee House approved ‌a new congressional map dismantling a Black-majority district in the U.S. House of Representatives built around the predominantly African American city of Memphis

Republicans may gain up to 12 House seat via redistricting

It’s the latest move from lawmakers redrawing district lines to affect the margins of the battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives this fall

Gold crowns and bouquets of white flowers were placed on top of the closed caskets

For 21 years, Steve Fowler and Sam Wilson have performed together in a band on Memphis’ renowned Beale Street

New York Democrats are expected to begin redrawing their congressional maps to give their party more seats, but leaders are warning they aim to keep minority districts intact

The Supreme Court on Monday immediately put into effect its ruling invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map, leaving conservative Justice Samuel Alito and liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on opposite sides and accusing each other of lacking restraint

A slew of GOP-controlled states are moving forward with redrawing, fulfilling predictions the Democratic-aligned civil rights group Fair Fight Action made last year when it identified 19 possible seats that Republicans could target without Section 2 of the VRA in place

The shift comes amid a largely unprecedented redistricting spree that began last year with US President Donald Trump heaping pressure on Texas to redraw its congressional maps to favour Republicans

Landry signed an executive order postponing the nominating contests for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives until at least July 15 or until a date set by the Republican-led state legislature, citing an "election emergency of unconstitutional maps."

Ex-AG Eric Holder reacts to SCOTUS ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act: Republicans 'want to hold onto power at all costs'

Investigators are looking into how the former National Guardsman suspected of killing eight children in Louisiana on Sunday got a gun — despite an illegal firearms conviction on his record

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