Jun 27, 2019 | Campaign News
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a pair of lower court decisions striking down congressional districts on the basis of partisan gerrymandering and ruled that such claims are non-justiciable. The districts drawn by a Democrat-controlled process in Maryland and a...
Jun 23, 2019 | Campaign News
HD41: Mission physician John R. Guerra established a campaign committee for a potential challenge of Rep. Bobby Guerra (D-Mission), likely as a Republican. John Guerra unsuccessfully ran for Mission city council P4 in 2018 (22%) and mayor of Mission in 2014 (20%)....
Jun 17, 2019 | Campaign News
Correction: We mischaracterized a Wichita Falls ISD election in two recent reports. It was a tax ratification election, not a bond election. We relied on several local news reports that referred to it as a bond election. Since we were more interested in the nature of...
Jun 18, 2018 | Campaign News
The U.S. Supreme Court punted on the merits of partisan gerrymandering cases from Wisconsin and Maryland, ruling instead on narrow grounds of standing and process. The Court remanded the Wisconsin case back to the district court, and it affirmed a lower court’s...
Jan 11, 2018 | Campaign News
A three-judge federal panel unanimously ruled that North Carolina’s most recent redistricting plan constituted an invidious* partisan gerrymander that violated the First Amendment, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Election Clause (Art....
Oct 3, 2017 | Campaign News
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the partisan gerrymandering case Gill v. Whitford. Several of the justices appeared to be amenable to some kind of test to determine whether a map is too partisan in its bias, but there was no consensus on what such...
Oct 2, 2017 | Campaign News
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow in Gill v. Whitford, the partisan gerrymandering case from Wisconsin that could have implications for Texas’s current districts and the way they are drawn in the future. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has described...
Jul 31, 2017 | Campaign News
HD46: The Austin-American Statesman’s Ryan Autullo reported that Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) has been offered a deal to drop the criminal charges against her if she resigns by Tuesday. “It is truly not dignifying this new low that such character assassination has hit...
Jun 19, 2017 | Campaign News
The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear oral arguments in a Wisconsin case (Gill v. Whitford) on partisan gerrymandering, a highly watched case that could significantly alter the way congressional and legislative districts are drawn. In November, a three-judge...
Jun 5, 2017 | Campaign News
Early voting concludes tomorrow in jurisdictions holding June 10 runoff elections and continues in jurisdictions holding June 17 runoff elections. SD10: Burleson real estate developer and Burleson ISD trustee Beverly Powell has established an ActBlue fundraising page...
Mar 1, 2017 | Campaign News
Gerrymandering: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a lower court applied an incorrect legal standard when it determined that 11 Virginia legislative districts were not racially gerrymandered. The lower court required plaintiffs to prove “an actual conflict between the...
