#ELB: “The fight over Alabama’s congressional redistricting now shifts back to federal court” https://t.co/JTSS22LQn5

— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) July 24, 2023

Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated House and Senate instead passed a plan that would increase the percentage of Black voters from about 31% to 40% in the state's 2nd District. https://t.co/D5Jfd6waxx

— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) July 23, 2023

It’s not just Alabama’s congressional map, the state legislative maps are also making their way through the courts.

Alabama needs an Independent Redistricting Commission.

— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) July 23, 2023

I suspect Alabama will appeal the inevitable court ruling against them to the Supreme Court, taking Kavanaugh’s invitation to make a case the entire VRA is unconstitutional. SCOTUS then again says “Purcell Principle” means the illegal map is used for 2024 pending a new decision

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) July 21, 2023

Today both chambers of the Alabama Legislature will have passed a redrawn congressional district map. This map makes CD2 39.9% Black VAP, bumping it down to single digits but still reliably Republican. This does not address the court decision at all. pic.twitter.com/4iH1ZWcgXz

— Drew Savicki (@DrewSav) July 21, 2023

The map is in flagrant violation of SCOTUS's decision. https://t.co/hNF9VjyVic

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 21, 2023

Republicans liked it when the Supreme Court forced women to give birth, but when the same court orders Alabama to give Black voters fair representation, they defy the highest court in the land.
White-identity fascism is a threat to our democracy. https://t.co/NJZQH0BrJv

— Pro-Democracy (@ProDemocracyRTs) July 21, 2023

BREAKING: Alabama conference committee passes new congressional map. The plan, called Livingston 3, has a Black voting age population share of 50.65% in District 7 and 39.9% in District 2.

The map will go to the House and Senate for approval before heading to the governor.

— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) July 21, 2023

The Conference Committee is currently meeting and considering a new Congressional Map. It is the Livingston Congressional Plan 3-2023. Here it is. The BVAP in the proposed 2nd congressional district is 39.93% and it will be 50.65% in the second Congressional district. pic.twitter.com/Ae5FEOlfEt

— Chris England (@RepEngland70) July 21, 2023

Alabama House's GOP majority has acted in a way that made clear they had little intention of following SCOTUS' decision. The message is, they are entitled to power regardless of how Alabamians vote. They want to pick their voters instead of letting voters pick them. https://t.co/faAprtHjRp

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 20, 2023

BREAKING: Alabama Senate passes its own congressional map, which does not contain a second majority-Black district. Both chambers of the Alabama Legislature have passed different maps; lawmakers must agree on and enact a map by Friday or the court takes over drawing a new map. https://t.co/1yHc7CNsUC pic.twitter.com/6FD7m96HoB

— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) July 19, 2023

Alabama Republicans are trying desperately to dilute the power of Black voters. https://t.co/3tHdyWSQmK

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 19, 2023

This is Republican theater. The Court ordered a lawful map. If the legislature refused to comply, the Court will need to adopt its own. https://t.co/n5Rxw14nsn

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) July 18, 2023

Yesterday, Alabama state House Republicans advanced a new congressional map that failed to draw a court-ordered second Black district.

Today, Senate Republicans advanced a map that's even worse.

2nd District 2020 presidential results:
House map: Trump+4
Senate map: Trump+12 https://t.co/lgmJWjKSfY

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) July 18, 2023

The Alabama House's plan for the state's new congressional district map falls well short of the court's order. Under this plan, AL-2 is 42.5% Black and still voted GOP for President in 2012-2020. This would not reliably elect a candidate of minority voters choosing. pic.twitter.com/DSa9eDENCr

— Drew Savicki (@DrewSav) July 18, 2023

How is it possible for the Republican-dominated House in Tennessee to expel three Democratic lawmakers protesting in support of tighter gun laws? Gerrymandering explained:https://t.co/vhPadpcYrw

— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) April 7, 2023

A history of the Gerrymander, a thread 🧵

Gerrymandering has become a prominent issue today, with every state having some history of it. However, the term only originated around 200 years ago, when Elbridge Gerry became the governor of Massachusetts in 1811. pic.twitter.com/CKcH2MmHYx

— Twiz 🌻 (@twizzyu) June 5, 2023

#OnThisDay in 1812, Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a new Massachusetts state Senate map.

One of these districts looked like a salamander and was thus dubbed a "gerrymander." pic.twitter.com/TyWB36itCN

— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) February 11, 2024

Democrats won 53% of the vote in the Wisconsin state assembly elections in 2018. Republicans only won 44.6%.

Democrats only got 36 seats while Republicans got 63 seats due to gerrymandering.

We MUST elect @janetforjustice and defeat her MAGA opponent to restore fair maps. pic.twitter.com/Aof7nzRcvE

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) March 27, 2023

In Wisconsin, Republicans are close to capturing veto-proof supermajorities in the State Legislature that would render the Democratic governor irrelevant even if he wins re-election on Tuesday in the battleground state.https://t.co/87Z2Olkojq

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 4, 2022

Republican legislators have gerrymandered Wisconsin’s district map to such an outlandish degree that the state is barely recognizable as a democracy.

The party's gubernatorial nominee intends to make the state even more voter-proof. #WIGov https://t.co/ORah6q1dx0

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen) November 2, 2022

Republicans have been explicit about their contempt for democracy but this hasn't figured into campaign coverage nearly as much as it should have. https://t.co/UXcgOY0usW

— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) November 1, 2022

A 50-50 state with veto-proof supermajorities for one-party is not simply not democratic. The plans to take control of elections afterward are ominous. Democracy is in danger in Wisconsin. https://t.co/NKO8MV6bZa pic.twitter.com/vdURlbBnEU

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) (@BrendanNyhan) November 4, 2022

Wisconsin’s GOP gubernatorial nominee said the quiet part aloud: "Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor." (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/6nnfz5Mvgg

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 4, 2022

NEW: Wisconsin Legislature ask the state Supreme Court — for the second time — to reconsider its decision to strike down the state's legislative districts and order new maps. The court rejected the lawmakers' first request.https://t.co/byJT5uawrx

— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) January 23, 2024

Grofman and Cervas, who were appointed by the WI Supreme Court, are among the best-known nonpartisan experts in redistricting, Byer and Nordenberg said.

The two experts recently assisted in drawing neutral maps in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. https://t.co/siStNkr6Uq

— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) January 4, 2024

A remarkable stat from the plaintiffs:

Wisconsin's constitution requires all legislative districts to be contiguous, but under the GOP's gerrymanders, 54 of 99 Assembly districts & 21 of 33 Senate districts aren't.

Only 3 other states have a combined 9 non-contiguous districts https://t.co/facKQmaqeK

— Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social (@PoliticsWolf) October 20, 2023

Obama cites chilling stat from my new article on impact of extreme gerrymandering in Wisconsin: "Democrats have to win statewide vote by 12 points just to get to 50 seats in the assembly, while Republicans could garner a majority with just 44% of votes" https://t.co/aZYAbyXasY https://t.co/YYJPAxAIvk

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 30, 2022

How Wisconsin became ground zero for American polarization: Once a true swing state, election results show Wisconsin’s political divides have become more calcified along county lines as the country has polarized. (@Dchinni @chucktodd) Details: https://t.co/nyTGOg0pgP pic.twitter.com/S8YbOodvOq

— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) October 16, 2022

In the WI competitive authoritarian state the gerrymandered legislature and the supreme court are unwilling to accept the risk that the voters might disagree with them. And so they have established a political system where it’s heads I win, tails you lose. https://t.co/ec2VVPjc0s

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) October 13, 2022

Wisconsin is two races away from becoming a totalitarian state. How the hell did that happen? https://t.co/LKUPC4Z6Ce

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) August 15, 2022

Wisconsin is not a democracy. Given gerrymandering, the outcome of the midterms for the Wisconsin legislature is pre-ordained, despite the fact it is a purple state. It’s been that way for a decade and it will be that way for at least another decade. https://t.co/mIzV1lizCD

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) August 14, 2022

Other than the US Supreme Court, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is the most partisan and corrupt in America. Today's blatantly partisan decision to ban dropboxes confirms that. Outrageous and despicable.

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) July 8, 2022

Our MC article builds on our more detailed analysis of this cycle’s new maps in Publius: https://t.co/UfqR6XN303

— Chris Warshaw (@cwarshaw) September 27, 2022

Just a reminder that somewhere between 4–10 of the lean/likely GOP seats would be lean/likely *Democratic* seats but for #SCOTUS’s unsigned, unexplained stays of district court injunctions that had blocked congressional maps in Alabama and Louisiana — and their effects elsewhere. https://t.co/q7F9MCGvoZ

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) September 21, 2022

Ohio’s Supreme Court struck down 7 GOP gerrymanders since 2021 but couldn’t draw its own maps, so GOP now aims to kill ballot initiatives so voters can’t adopt an independent redistricting commission.

Gerrymandered GOP legislatures have tried this in many states this past decade https://t.co/0nrVaXoBjt

— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) October 28, 2022

The legislative-district maps in Ohio have been drawn so that many Republicans effectively cannot lose, all but insuring a veto-proof super-majority

As a result, most GOP incumbents only worry about the primaries—where hard-core partisans dominate https://t.co/xiFCvdK3G6

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) August 14, 2022

NEW: Senate President @matthuffman1 wants to appeal Ohio's congressional map rejection to the U.S. Supreme Court https://t.co/kcgfcPHKem via @enquirer

— Jessie Balmert (@jbalmert) August 17, 2022

including the 132 legislators who are supposed to be drawing a new congressional map by Thursday

🫠 https://t.co/9H6YjKSitX

— Katy Shanahan (@KatyAShanahan) August 17, 2022

But on a deeper level, the case of Ohio has more to say about the state of American democracy more broadly. In particular, when it comes to voting and elections, Republicans cannot be trusted to act in good faith when they stand to reap partisan gains.https://t.co/TUbGWhylPG

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) July 28, 2022

Three GOP members of the OH Sup Ct—the same 3 who keep fighting to uphold unconstitutional map—at the Trump Youngstown rally.

All three are up this November.

Vote all three out by supporting @JenniferBrunner @Jamison4Justice and @vote4JudgeZayas https://t.co/yNMSSk7Oso

— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) September 20, 2022

New York went through a lengthy redistricting process that ended with a map drawn by a court-appointed special master, which is why the primary was delayed until today. (It was supposed to have been held in June.) https://t.co/5iVU4s6r0b

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) August 24, 2022

NY state leaders want the independent redistricting commission — not the legislature — to redraw 2024 Assembly map. "Having the legislature draw the map … opens the door to shenanigans," says @mcpli: https://t.co/Q4V7qw2LVA

— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) August 10, 2022

A New York appeals court ruled that new congressional districts drawn by Democrats violated the state’s ban on partisan gerrymandering, partially upholding a lower-court ruling that would block the state from using the lines in this year’s elections. https://t.co/Jpoc8nzEvr

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 21, 2022

"Using rejected maps in the four states…was likely to hand Republicans five to seven House seats that they otherwise would not have won." https://t.co/TxSnI9nrkZ

— Jennifer Mascia (@JenniferMascia) August 8, 2022

🚨

Why the GOP is willing to break the law to gerrymander, in 3 quick slides:

1) it allows them to maintain control of the heart of power in states (statehouses) and the US House even when they are in the minority in those states (all 4 of these states were blue in ‘12)

1/ pic.twitter.com/0OOzSczOec

— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) July 19, 2022

It looks like this decade’s redistricting battles ended in a draw. We break down what that means for each party’s paths to win control of the House in future elections: https://t.co/vQb80Wy2Sw

— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) August 6, 2022

I sound like a broken record but redistricting affects *everything*– every issue you're concerned about has, can or will be touched by redistricting.

Here's a cool @cnn interactive showing how new congressional maps shift voting power in every statehttps://t.co/YjpvQEtdIZ

— Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) July 25, 2022

There are 22 majority-Black districts in the current Congress. Next year, there will be as few as nine. https://t.co/5qVh65Gv2l

— Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) July 20, 2022

Gerrymander U.S.A.: "They shore up their strongholds and help eliminate any meaningful electoral competition. It’s the opposite of how representative democracy is supposed to work." Nicely done. https://t.co/YIiSlMjux9

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org ☮️ (@froomkin) July 13, 2022

#NEW: UT lawmakers have filed a motion to stay the case challenging Utah's congressional map pending the outcome of Moore v. Harper. https://t.co/ixhOsJpU9b pic.twitter.com/RDMJddUxMR

— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) July 24, 2022

Utah’s new map has four solidly Republican districts and no Democratic, or even swing, districts. In this state, the Republican primary is all that matters. https://t.co/V02LeLHP28 pic.twitter.com/mEaIvPjUoB

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) June 29, 2022

A group of Utah voters argue that the Utah Legislature violated the state constitution by gerrymandering the congressional map to benefit Republicans and repealing voter-approved redistricting reforms that aimed to reduce gerrymandering.

— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) July 25, 2022

#NEW: Lawyers for the state of Utah are asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit challenging the state's congressional map. https://t.co/axu1e1lypT

— The Redistrict Network (@RedistrictNet) May 8, 2022