Supreme Court won't get involved in Mississippi redistricting
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting...
Federal court: Discrimination in Texas voting maps
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A federal court has found evidence of discrimination in Texas voting maps drawn by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature...
Census could change racial categories
theGRIO REPORT - The census bureau is expanding the way American’s are able to identify themselves racially on future census counts...
Democratic rep targeted with racist robocalls
theGRIO REPORT - The robocalls question whether Clarke and his late mother, Thelma Hashim, are black. Ron Scott, a media consultant for Clarke, said that the calls were 'sickening'...
Conservative Dems opting out of the DNC convention
theGRIO REPORT - The convention is just two months away and it’s quite possible the list of Dems deciding to avoid the parties’ convention may continue to grow...
Redistricting may keep blacks from representing Detroit
theGRIO REPORT - Of the many issues presented by Detroit’s plummeting population is that it has not only altered the cultural makeup of the city and affected the tax base; it has also led to a complete redrawing for electoral maps around the area...
New GOP-drawn districts hard on Southern Democrats
LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) - While Democrats fared well under California's and New York's redistricting plans, the new congressional district maps in the South are more favorable to Republicans...
Federal court decides lines in NY redistricting
A federal court ordered the state to accept their restricting plan after local officials failed to agree on one of their own...
Kansas lawmaker defends 'primarily Caucasion' district
A Republican lawmaker from Kansas has a pretty absurd argument against the redistricting of her neighborhood, she doesn't want her 'primarily Caucasian' district to become more diverse...
Minority advantage as court upholds TX districts?
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal court refused late Friday to block a congressional redistricting map it drew up for Texas, rejecting a request from the state's attorney general just hours after the Republican accused the court of 'undermining the democratic process.'...
