The fight for the Democratic seat in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District has become just that more competitive following a Supreme Court decision in...
The U.S. Supreme Court has greenlit Louisiana's utilization of a congressional map featuring a second district where the majority of voters are Black. This...
By Jon Hale, University of South Carolina
America recently marked the 65-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education –...
By John Rennie Short, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court has ruled that partisan gerrymandering is not unconstitutional.
The majority...
By Kevin Johnson, University of California, Davis
Immediately before the Supreme Court’s summer recess each year, it releases decisions in some of its most challenging...
Federal judges have no authority to address partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court said in a 5-to-4 decision that allows politicians to keep drawing electoral...