Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., announced she would not be running for re-election in 2024, complaining the race was "rigged" against her by Republicans in the state legislature.
Republican lawmakers in Georgia pushed forward Tuesday with a congressional map proposal that keeps a 9-5 Republican majority for House seats, which Democrats claim violates a federal court order. The map, introduced Friday, will split Rep. Lucy McBath’s (D-Ga.) northeast Atlanta district and create a new west Atlanta district to follow a court order after…
A lawsuit filed Monday in North Carolina alleges newly adopted district boundaries for the state Senate divide a cluster of predominantly Black counties in the northeast corner of the state in a way that unfairly dilutes the voting power of Black residents. Two Black voters drawn into a majority-white district are asking a federal judge to block state officials from conducting future elections under a new map they argue unlawfully deprives them the opportunity to elect their preferred candidates. Plaintiffs Rodney Pierce, a social studies teacher from Halifax County, and Moses Matthews, a retired chemist from Martin County, are requesting the court order a redrawn map including an eastern North Carolina district where minority voters would have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.