Significant Mapping Developments
Alabama
A federal three-judge panel threw out Alabama’s enacted congressional plan for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and gave the state 14 days to enact a remedial plan.
Arizona
After an initial delay, Arizona’s redistricting commission certified their congressional and legislative plans as final to the Secretary of State.
Florida
Florida’s Senate passed a congressional plan and sent it to the House. Florida’s House also released an updated state House redistricting plan.
Kansas
Kansas’s state legislature passed a congressional redistricting plan and sent it to the Governor.
Kentucky
Kentucky enacted congressional, state Senate, and state House redistricting plans after the state legislature voted to override the Governor’s veto of the congressional and state House plans. State Democrats filed a lawsuit challenging the enacted congressional and state House plans as partisan gerrymanders that violate the state’s Free and Equal Elections Clause.
Maryland
Maryland’s Senate passed the Legislative Redistricting Advisory Commission’s legislative plan proposal and sent it to the state House where it was advanced out of committee on a party-line vote.
Mississippi
Mississippi’s Governor signed a congressional redistricting plan into law.
Missouri
A Missouri Senate committee advanced the congressional plan passed by the state House to the full chamber.
Ohio
Ohio’s Redistricting Commission approved remedial legislative plans and submitted them to the Ohio Supreme Court for their review.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s state legislature passed a congressional plan, but the state’s Governor is expected to veto it. Parties in the congressional redistricting deadlock litigation submitted their proposed congressional plans to the Commonwealth Court.
South Carolina
South Carolina’s Senate passed an amended version of the House’s congressional redistricting plan and sent it back to the House for approval.
Tennessee
Tennessee’s state legislature passed congressional and state Senate redistricting plans and sent them to the Governor. The state House also passed a state House plan and sent it to the Senate.
Vermont
Vermont’s House passed a state House redistricting plan that retains multi-member districts and sent it to the state Senate.
Important Dates
This Week
Pennsylvania – 1/30: Court-established deadline to enact a congressional plan through the legislative process.
Louisiana – 2/1: Extraordinary redistricting session scheduled to convene
Next Week
New Jersey – 2/8: Tie-breaking commissioner’s deadline for legislative plan proposals
Washington – 2/9: Legislature’s deadline to amend commission’s adopted congressional and legislative plans
National News
Redistricting News
Stakeholders continue to assess how the redistricting processes will play out in the remaining battleground states. As Democrats proceed with aggressive redistricting maneuvers in states they control, a North Carolina op-ed points out the party’s hypocritical stance on partisan gerrymandering.
State News
Maryland
The DCCC filed a motion to intervene in the state lawsuit challenging Maryland’s enacted congressional plan as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
Michigan
Michigan Republicans filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Michigan redistricting commission’s adopted congressional plan as violating the one person, one vote constitutional requirements and state redistricting criteria.
New Jersey
New Jersey Democrats removed and replaced one of their appointees to the state’s legislative redistricting commission. New reports detail additional conflicts of interest between several members of the state’s legislative redistricting commission, the independent advisors to the tie-breaking commissioners, and Democratic donors.
New Mexico
New Mexico’s Republican Party filed a state lawsuit challenging the state’s enacted congressional plan as a partisan gerrymander in violation of the New Mexico Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.
New York
New York’s redistricting commission failed to submit their second congressional and legislative redistricting proposals, so map-drawing authority now passes to the state legislature.
North Carolina
With lawsuits pending over the state’s enacted congressional plan, Buncombe County hired legal counsel to advise them on their county-level redistricting process.