Part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act says that you cannot gerrymander based on the color of someone's skin.

The Supreme Court takes up segregated political maps, a temporary remedy that has lingered on.

S ixty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, more than a dozen congressional districts as well as many state legislative districts are drawn along openly racial lines

NAACP Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson, who defended the VRA, pushed back on this claim, noting (correctly) that the Supreme Court has never actually embraced it. Kavanaugh was not dissuaded,

Democrats and Republicans agree gerrymandering threatens representative democracy. Nevertheless, both parties have done it and are now in the midst of a “gerrymander war.” It is the political equivalent of mutual assured destruction, in this case destruction of our democracy.

Republicans are ratcheting up their extraordinary efforts to tip the scales of the 2026 midterm elections by redistricting new GOP-leaning US House seats in the middle of the decade.

While both Blue and Red states (including Florida) undertaking mid-decade congressional redistricting ahead of the 2026 election, a report critizes the way the U.S. Census and state government count prison populations for the purpose of redistricting.