Mid-Decade Redistricting

Updated2026-11-08 Covers2025-08-07 to 2026-11-03

Summary

Starting in summer 2025, Trump urged states led by Republicans to redraw their U.S. House maps. States usually redraw only once every ten years, after the census. Trump wanted new maps in the middle of the decade to add seats that lean Republican before the 2026 midterm elections.¹ Texas passed the first new map.² California voters answered with Proposition 50, a measure on the state ballot.³ Then the Supreme Court decided Louisiana v. Callais,⁴⁴ a case that struck down Louisiana’s map. After that ruling, several Southern states redrew their maps again.⁴,⁵ Texas drew its map to add five new seats that lean Republican. In the Nov 3, 2026 midterms, Republicans ended up with a net change of minus one seat in Texas.⁶,⁷² As of Nov 5, CBS News counted two House seats across the country that moved to Republicans. Both were in redrawn districts (TX-32 and TN-9).⁶ Louisiana’s redrawn 6th District goes to a runoff election on Dec 12.⁷ In Virginia, the state supreme court threw out a voter-approved amendment for a map drawn by Democrats.²² Then, 12 days before the midterms, the Justice Department made public a racketeering indictment of state Sen. L. Louise Lucas. She was a key figure in pushing the map through.⁴⁸

Background

States normally redraw their districts once every ten years, after the census. The Constitution’s Elections Clause lets state legislatures set the “Times, Places and Manner” of elections for Congress. Congress can change those rules (Article I, Section 4, Clause 1).³⁵ In League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry (2006),³⁶ the Supreme Court did not rule that the Constitution forbids redrawing maps in the middle of a decade. In Rucho v. Common Cause (2019),³⁷ the Court said federal courts cannot decide claims of partisan gerrymandering, meaning maps drawn to help one party. Federal courts can still hear claims of racial gerrymandering, meaning maps drawn mainly by race. Those claims come under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, which says states must treat people equally under the law.³⁸ State constitutions and state laws set their own limits too. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) is a federal law against voting rules that discriminate by race. For many years, Section 2 of the VRA, 52 U.S.C. § 10301,³⁹ required some districts where most voters belong to minority groups.⁴

House seats are divided among the states by population. The Fourteenth Amendment says to count the “whole number of persons in each state,” when dividing the seats.⁴⁰ Article I of the Constitution gives Congress, not the President, power over the “actual enumeration.”⁴¹,⁸ That means the count itself. A census in the middle of the decade is legal. But a federal law says its results cannot be used to reassign House seats among the states (13 U.S.C. § 141(e)(2)).⁴²,⁸ The Purcell principle comes from the Supreme Court case Purcell v. Gonzalez (2006).⁴³ It warns courts against ordering changes to election rules close to an election.¹³

What happened

Texas

The White House urged Texas to redraw its map. Then the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent Texas a letter. The letter said four “coalition” districts, where minority groups together make up most voters, were unconstitutional. Gov. Greg Abbott pointed to the letter when he called a special session of the legislature.² The new map redrew five seats held by Democrats.¹ On Aug 3, 2025, most Democrats in the Texas House left the state. Without them, the House did not have a quorum, the number of members needed to do business. They stayed away more than two weeks.¹⁰ Abbott threatened to remove them from office.¹⁰ The House passed the map 88–52 on Aug 20. Abbott signed it on Aug 29.²

On Nov 18, a federal court of three judges in El Paso blocked the map, 2–1, as a racial gerrymander, meaning a map drawn mainly by race.¹¹,⁵² On Nov 21, Justice Samuel Alito paused the ruling for a short time. On Dec 4, the full Supreme Court paused it, 6–3. On Apr 27, 2026, the Court reversed the panel without full briefing and argument.¹²,⁶³,¹³,⁷⁰ The majority on the pause said the lower court had “improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign,” which is the concern behind the Purcell principle.¹³

California, Utah and other 2025 redraws

Kansas Republicans did not start a redraw. Kansas kept its existing map for 2026.⁵⁰ North Carolina adopted a new map on Oct 22, 2025. Ohio’s redistricting commission finished one on Oct 31. Its target was a 12–3 split in favor of Republicans.¹⁵ On Nov 4, California voters passed Prop 50 with about 64% of the vote. It replaced the map drawn by the state’s commission with one that favors Democrats.³ In early January 2026, a panel of three federal judges upheld the map, 2–1. The panel found that the challengers “failed to show that racial gerrymandering occurred”. The Trump administration had joined the challenge. On Feb 4, 2026, the Supreme Court turned down the California Republican Party’s emergency request. The order was unsigned, and no justice was noted as disagreeing. The map stayed in force for the midterms.⁵⁸

Utah voters passed a measure against gerrymandering in 2018. In a lawsuit to enforce it, a Utah judge adopted a court-ordered map on Nov 10, 2025. The map has a seat in Salt Lake County that leans Democratic.¹⁶ In February 2026 the Utah Supreme Court declined to hear the legislature’s appeal, for reasons about which court has power over the case. On Oct 5, 2026, it heard arguments on which court may hear the case.⁵¹

Indiana

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun called a special session of the legislature on Nov 3, 2025.⁵⁰,⁵⁹ Vice President JD Vance lobbied state lawmakers. Then Trump said he would back primary challengers against Republicans who opposed the map. At least 11 Indiana Republicans received bomb threats or swatting calls, which are false emergency reports meant to send police to someone’s home.¹⁷ On Dec 5, the Indiana House passed the map 57–41. It would have divided Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, into four districts. Senate Majority Leader Rodric Bray had said the map lacked enough Republican support in his chamber.⁶⁰ On Dec 11, 2025, the Senate rejected the map 19–31, with 21 Republicans voting no.¹⁷ Trump backed challengers against seven state senators. On May 5, 2026, five of those seven lost their primaries.¹⁸,⁶¹

Missouri map and referendum

On Sept 28, 2025, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a map that splits Kansas City.¹⁴ Opponents filed a petition for a referendum, which is a public vote on a law. On May 12, 2026, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the 2025 map stays in effect while officials review the petition’s signatures.⁵⁰,⁶⁴ Organizers had gathered more than 300,000 signatures. Even so, on Aug 4, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected the referendum petition on the 2025 map. He said the referendum was unconstitutional. The organizers sued.²⁸ On Sept 3, the Missouri Supreme Court blocked the map until the referendum vote. Hoskins was held in contempt of court, meaning a judge found he had disobeyed a court order.²⁹,⁷¹ On Sept 25, the U.S. Supreme Court paused orders from lower federal courts. No justice publicly disagreed. Those courts had treated using the 2025 map as the choice that fit best with Purcell. The Supreme Court found that “the 8th Circuit was wrong” to do so. The 2022 map stayed in place.³⁰

New York, Virginia and Maryland

A New York state court ordered a redraw of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’s district on Staten Island. On Mar 2, 2026, the Supreme Court, 6–3, paused that order.¹⁹ The people who brought the case dropped their claims on Mar 19, and on Jun 17 New York’s legislature first passed SB 10637, an amendment to the state constitution. It would allow redistricting in the middle of a decade. It must pass the legislature again before it goes to voters, possibly in 2027.⁴⁹

In Virginia, the legislature passed a map amendment to the state constitution twice. In February 2026 it also passed a map that would take effect only if the amendment won. The amendment allowed a map drawn by Democrats. On Apr 21, voters approved it, 51.45% to 48.55%.⁵⁵,²⁰ The next day, Trump called the vote “RIGGED,” and pointed to a “massive Mail In Ballot Drop”. Cardinal News reported that the claim was wrong.²⁰ On May 6, the FBI searched the office of L. Louise Lucas, a key figure in pushing the map through. The search was part of a bribery investigation that a source said began under Biden. Lucas said the search was an attempt to “intimidate and silence.”²¹ On May 8, the Virginia Supreme Court threw out the amendment 4–3, ruling that it broke the state constitution’s intervening-election rule. That rule requires a House of Delegates election between the legislature’s two votes on an amendment. On May 15 the U.S. Supreme Court turned down Democrats’ emergency request to pause that ruling.²²,⁵⁵ A grand jury had charged Lucas and six relatives and associates with racketeering on Oct 14. On Oct 22, 12 days before the midterms, DOJ made that indictment public. Attorney General Todd Blanche said DOJ’s pre-election “blackout period” is a practice, not a law. Lucas said, “I will not be intimidated.”⁴⁸

In Maryland, a bill to draw a new map, HB 488, died when the regular session ended on Apr 13, 2026. The Senate had not acted on it.⁵⁷ Gov. Wes Moore then held a special session on Aug 3–5. It passed HB 2100, which is an amendment to the state constitution, not a map.³¹ A 2022 court ruling against a Democratic congressional map was based on rules that districts be compact. The amendment limits those compactness rules to state legislative districts.³¹ State courts kept the amendment off the ballot. Then on Sept 3, the Maryland Supreme Court reversed them and ordered the ballot language rewritten.⁶⁹ Voters approved the amendment as Question 3 on Nov 3.⁵⁷,³¹

Callais and the Southern maps

On Apr 29, 2026, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s map 6–3, removing the state’s second district where most voters are Black.⁴ Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry then stopped the state’s House primary while absentee voting was already underway.²³ On May 4, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a map projected to gain Republicans up to four seats.⁵ On May 26, a court refused to issue a preliminary injunction, an order that would have stopped the map until the case was decided. The Florida Supreme Court left the map in place on June 10.⁵³,⁶⁵,⁵⁴ On May 7, Tennessee repealed its state law that barred redrawing congressional maps in the middle of a decade. It also split Rep. Steve Cohen’s district in Memphis.²⁴ On July 23, a panel of three federal judges refused to issue a preliminary injunction in Sherman v. Hargett. Two federal cases are still pending.⁵⁴

On May 29, the Louisiana Senate gave final approval, 28–10, to a new map. The map ends the 6th District’s status as a district where most voters are Black. According to the Associated Press (AP), it does this by redrawing Rep. Cleo Fields’ district around mostly white communities near Baton Rouge and in southern Louisiana.²⁵ The map is challenged in Callais v. Landry. There was no ruling as of Sept 25.⁵⁴ On May 11, because of Callais, the Supreme Court lifted an order that had blocked Alabama’s map. On June 2, it voted 6–3 to let Alabama use a 2023 map. A panel of three judges had found that map unconstitutional for the second time. The earlier ruling found the map was meant to discriminate. Justice Sotomayor disagreed with the order. She wrote that it “disregards both democratic values and the rule of law.”²⁶ Special primaries for the affected districts were held Aug 11.⁵⁴

On May 18, the Court reversed a 2024 order that had required Mississippi to redraw its legislative districts.⁵⁴,⁶⁶ Georgia’s special session on Jun 17 did not take up redistricting.⁵⁴ South Carolina tried to eliminate Rep. Jim Clyburn’s district, where most voters are Black. The effort ended on May 26. That day, 12 Republican senators joined Democrats in refusing to end debate.²⁷

Census and apportionment

On Aug 7, 2025, while Texas was redrawing its map, Trump said he had told the Commerce Department to begin a “new and highly accurate CENSUS.” He said that in it, “People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED”. The Commerce Department said the Census Bureau would “reflect the number of legal residents”. It gave no plan.⁸ On Feb 6, 2026, AP reported on the Census Bureau’s 2030 practice test. The bureau planned to use the American Community Survey form, which asks about citizenship. That week, the administration had cut the test from six sites to two: Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C.⁹,⁶² According to AP, no census form has asked that question in 75 years.⁹,⁶²

Key dates

• 2025-08-07 — Trump orders a “new” census excluding unauthorized immigrants — → ledger
• 2025-08-20 — Texas map passes; redistricting wave begins; Kansas redraw fails — → ledger
• 2025-11-04 — Off-year elections; Prop 50 passes — → ledger
• 2025-11-10 — Utah court-ordered map; Utah Supreme Court argument Oct 5, 2026 — → ledger
• 2025-11-18 — El Paso panel blocks Texas map as a racial gerrymander — → ledger
• 2025-12-04 — SCOTUS stays the El Paso ruling 6–3 under Purcell — → ledger
• 2025-12-11 — Indiana Senate rejects map 19–31 — → ledger
• 2026-02-04 — SCOTUS declines to block California’s Prop 50 map — → ledger
• 2026-03-02 — SCOTUS stays New York redraw — → ledger
• 2026-04-27 — SCOTUS formally reverses the El Paso ruling on Texas’s map — → ledger
• 2026-04-29 — Louisiana v. Callais; House primary suspended — → ledger
• 2026-05-04 — DeSantis signs Florida map; injunction denied May 26 — → ledger
• 2026-05-08 — Virginia Supreme Court voids amendment; SCOTUS denies stay May 15 — → ledger
• 2026-05-29 — Post-Callais Southern re-maps; Alabama stay; Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana challenge — → ledger
• 2026-09-03 — Missouri Supreme Court blocks 2025 map pending the referendum — → ledger
• 2026-09-25 — SCOTUS stays lower-court orders to use Missouri’s 2025 map; 2022 map stays — → ledger
• 2026-10-22 — DOJ unseals racketeering indictment of Sen. Lucas — → ledger
• 2026-11-03 — Midterm redistricting results; TN-9, AL-2, LA-6 runoff — → ledger
• 2026-11-03 — Midterm ballot measures; Missouri Prop A rejected; Colorado Amendment 86 short of 55% — → ledger

Why it matters

The Elections Clause (Article I, Section 4, Clause 1)³⁵ and redrawing mid-decade. This clause lets state legislatures set the rules for electing Congress, and lets Congress change them. The question is whether a state may replace a lawful map between censuses to help one party. The federal starting point comes from LULAC v. Perry (2006) and Rucho (2019). Under those cases, mid-decade and partisan redistricting are left to the states and to Congress.³⁶,³⁷ The record shows no action by Congress on mid-decade redistricting.

The Equal Protection Clause (Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1)³⁸ and racial gerrymandering. The question is whether the Texas and Alabama maps were drawn on purpose to discriminate by race.¹¹,²⁶ In Texas, DOJ’s Civil Rights Division called four coalition districts unconstitutional. The El Paso panel found the challengers were likely to prove a racial gerrymander. The Supreme Court paused that ruling and then reversed it without full argument.²,¹¹,¹² In Alabama, the Court let a map stand after a panel found it unconstitutional a second time. The first ruling had found it was meant to discriminate.²⁶ The record does not include the administration’s filings in the Texas, Alabama and Louisiana cases. In those cases the states, not the federal government, were the defendants.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. § 10301)³⁹ after Callais⁴⁴. The question is what Section 2 still requires after Callais. After Callais, Alabama’s and Louisiana’s new maps each removed a district where most voters are Black. Tennessee’s new map split the Memphis district.⁴,²⁶,²⁵,²⁴ The record does not explain the reasoning of the Callais majority. Callais v. Landry, the challenge to Louisiana’s replacement map, is still pending.⁵⁴

The Purcell principle (Purcell v. Gonzalez, 2006)⁴³. The question is how close to an election Purcell stops courts from ordering changes. In the Texas pause, the majority said the lower court had “improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign,” a Purcell concern. In Missouri, the Court found that “the 8th Circuit was wrong” on the Purcell point (Sept 25, 2026). No justice publicly disagreed with the Missouri order.¹³,³⁰

Federal review of state-court redistricting orders. The question is whether the U.S. Supreme Court may pause a state court’s redistricting order before the state’s highest court has ruled. The Court paused the New York order. Justice Sotomayor disagreed. In her dissent, she described a federal pause coming before a state’s high court could act as unprecedented.¹⁹

State constitutional and statutory limits. Several maps turned on state law. These included Virginia’s intervening-election requirement⁴⁵ and Florida’s Fair Districts provision, which sets standards for drawing congressional districts.⁴⁶ They also included Missouri’s referendum, Utah’s 2018 initiative, Maryland’s compactness rules, New York’s amendment process and Tennessee’s repealed bar in state law.¹⁶,²⁸,³¹,⁴⁹,⁵⁴ State courts applied these limits. They threw out Virginia’s amendment, left Florida’s map in place, blocked Missouri’s map and put Maryland’s amendment on the ballot (see the state sections above). The U.S. Supreme Court declined to disturb the Virginia ruling.²²,⁵⁴,²⁹,⁵⁷,⁵⁵ Utah’s appeal has not been decided.⁵¹

Justice Manual § 9-85.500⁴⁷ (actions that may affect an election). The Justice Manual is the Justice Department’s written set of policies for its lawyers. The question is whether the timing of the Lucas indictment fits § 9-85.500. That section bars prosecutors from timing any action to affect an election. Blanche said the “blackout period” is a practice, not a law.⁴⁸ No court or official body in the record has addressed the timing.

Census and apportionment (Article I, Section 2, Clause 3⁴¹; Fourteenth Amendment, Section 2⁴⁰; 13 U.S.C. § 141(e)(2)⁴²). Apportionment means dividing House seats among the states by population. The question is whether the President may order a census that leaves out unauthorized immigrants.⁸ The Commerce Department said the bureau would “reflect the number of legal residents.”⁸ The record does not include the administration’s stated legal basis. No court has ruled.

Outcome

Where things stand

In the Nov 3, 2026 midterms, Republicans gained two redrawn districts, TX-32 and TN-9, according to CBS News. LA-6 is still pending.⁶ In Texas, Democrats flipped TX-15 (Bobby Pulido beat Rep. Monica De La Cruz). Democrats also won the open TX-35 seat, which Republicans had redrawn. They held TX-9, TX-28 and TX-34, and the net result for Republicans was −1.⁶ As of Nov 5, CBS counted 43 House seats across the country that moved to Democrats and 2 that moved to Republicans. CBS said the Republican Party was “on track to lose all of the districts it tried to gerrymander.”⁶ Three rulings remain in effect: Callais, the Apr 27, 2026 reversal in the Texas case and the June 2 pause in the Alabama case.⁴,¹²,²⁶

Still moving are the LA-6 runoff on Dec 12 and the items marked Pending below. No authoritative net seat count for the redrawn maps alone has been published. Louisiana’s lawsuit over the stopped primary was closed because the people who filed it dropped it, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).²³ See Conflicts Between the Executive and the Courts, Federal Actions on Election Administration, Prosecutions and Investigations of Trump Critics and The 2026 Midterms.

Status

Who is affected

Maps redrawn mid-decade affect voters by changing the district they vote in. They also change how many seats each party can win in a state.¹ After Callais, maps in Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee removed or split districts where most voters are Black. Those maps affect Black voters in those states.⁴,²⁵,²⁶,²⁴ Louisiana voters were also affected when the primary was stopped while absentee voting was underway.²³ Missouri voters were affected when the state rejected their referendum petition. Later, they voted on the map.²⁸,³² Indiana Republican legislators received threats. Trump backed primary challengers against Republicans who opposed the map.¹⁷,¹⁸ Trump’s census order affects unauthorized immigrants, because he said they would not be counted.⁸

• Voters in redrawn districts across the country (maps In force in nine states) — As of Nov 5, 2026 CBS News counted two House seats that moved to Republicans, both in redrawn districts (TX-32 and TN-9). CBS said the Republican Party was “on track to lose all of the districts it tried to gerrymander”. No authoritative net seat count for the redrawn maps alone has been published.⁶
• Missouri voters (2025 map, Concluded) — Organizers gathered more than 300,000 referendum signatures. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected them on Aug 4, 2026. On Nov 3, 2026 voters rejected the map through Proposition A, 62–38 (Associated Press call). Democrats flipped MO-2 under the 2022 map.²⁸,³²,⁶
• California voters (Proposition 50 map, In force) — About 64% approved the map on Nov 4, 2025, replacing the commission’s map. CBS News recorded Democratic flips under it on Nov 3, 2026, including CA-48 and CA-1.³,⁶
• Virginia voters (map amendment, Blocked) — Voters approved the amendment 51.45% to 48.55% on Apr 21, 2026, and the Virginia Supreme Court threw it out 4–3 on May 8.⁵⁵,²⁰,²²
• Texas voters in the five redrawn districts held by Democrats (Texas map, In force) — A federal court of three judges blocked the map as a likely racial gerrymander (Nov 18, 2025). The Supreme Court reversed that ruling without full argument (Apr 27, 2026). On Nov 3, 2026 the net Republican result was minus one seat, according to CBS News.¹,¹¹,⁵²,¹²,⁷⁰,⁶,⁷²
• Black voters in Louisiana (post-Callais map, In force; suspended-primary suit, Concluded) — Callais (Apr 29, 2026) struck down the map that held the state’s second district where most voters are Black. The secretary of state stopped the House primary while absentee voting was underway. The May 29 map ended the Black majority in the 6th District, which goes to a Dec 12 runoff.⁴,²³,²⁵,⁷
• Black voters in Alabama (2023 map, In force) — On Jun 2, 2026 the Supreme Court, 6–3, let Alabama use a map that a panel of three judges had twice found unconstitutional. The first time, the panel found the map was meant to discriminate. Special primaries for the affected districts were held Aug 11, and Rep. Shomari Figures held AL-2, 53.8–46.2, on Nov 3.²⁶,⁵⁴,³⁴
• Memphis voters (Tennessee map, In force) — The May 7, 2026 map split Rep. Steve Cohen’s Memphis district. Republican Brent Taylor won TN-9, 49.6–48.5, on Nov 3, 2026.²⁴,³³
• Florida voters (Florida map, In force) — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a map on May 4, 2026 that was reported as projected to gain Republicans up to four seats. Democrats held or won FL-14, 22 and 25 on Nov 3.⁵,⁶
• North Carolina and Ohio voters (maps, In force) — North Carolina adopted a new map Oct 22, 2025. Ohio’s commission finished one Oct 31 with a 12–3 Republican target. On Nov 3, 2026 Democrats flipped OH-10.¹⁵,⁶
• Utah voters (court-ordered map, In force) — A Utah judge adopted a map on Nov 10, 2025 with a Salt Lake County seat that leans Democratic. Ben McAdams won UT-1 on Nov 3, 2026.¹⁶,⁶
• Maryland voters (Question 3, In force) — On Nov 3, 2026 voters approved an amendment about compactness rules. Those rules were behind a 2022 ruling against a Democratic congressional map. The amendment limits them to state legislative districts.³¹
• Staten Island voters (New York redraw order, Concluded) — On Mar 2, 2026, the Supreme Court paused, 6–3, a state-court order to redraw the district. The people who brought the case dropped their claims Mar 19.¹⁹,⁴⁹
• Indiana legislators (Indiana redraw, Concluded) — At least 11 Indiana Republicans received bomb threats or swatting calls. The Senate rejected the map 19–31 on Dec 11, 2025. On May 5, 2026 five of the seven senators whose challengers Trump backed lost their primaries.¹⁷,¹⁸,⁶¹
• Unauthorized immigrants (census order, Unresolved) — On Aug 7, 2025, Trump said people “in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED”. By February 2026 the Census Bureau planned to use a form asking about citizenship in its 2030 practice test. No census form has asked that in 75 years.⁸,⁹,⁶²

Key players

• Donald Trump — President — urged the redraws, backed primary challengers to Indiana senators who voted no, called Virginia’s vote “RIGGED.”¹,¹⁷,²⁰
• Greg Abbott — Texas governor — called the special session, signed the map.²
• JD Vance — Vice President — lobbied Indiana legislators.¹⁷
• Ron DeSantis — Florida governor — signed the Florida map.⁵
• Denny Hoskins — Missouri secretary of state — rejected the referendum petition; held in contempt.²⁸,²⁹,⁷¹
• L. Louise Lucas — Virginia Senate President pro tem — a key figure in pushing the Democratic map through; office searched by the FBI; indicted Oct 14, 2026.²¹,⁴⁸
• Todd Blanche — Attorney General — announced the Lucas indictment.⁴⁸
• Supreme Court majority — let the Texas, New York and Alabama maps stand and decided Callais; Justice Sotomayor wrote dissents.¹²,¹⁹,²⁶,⁴

Chronology

• 2025-08-07 — Trump orders a “new” census excluding unauthorized immigrants — → ledger
• 2025-08-20 — Texas map passes; redistricting wave begins; Kansas redraw fails — → ledger
• 2025-10-24 — DOJ announces monitors for California counties for the Prop 50 vote — → ledger
• 2025-11-03 — Indiana Gov. Braun calls a special session on redistricting — → ledger
• 2025-11-04 — Off-year elections; Prop 50 passes — → ledger
• 2025-11-10 — Utah court-ordered map; Utah Supreme Court argument Oct 5, 2026 — → ledger
• 2025-11-18 — El Paso panel blocks Texas map as a racial gerrymander — → ledger
• 2025-11-21 — Justice Alito temporarily stays the El Paso panel’s Texas order — → ledger
• 2025-12-04 — SCOTUS stays the El Paso ruling 6–3 under Purcell — → ledger
• 2025-12-05 — Indiana House passes the Trump-backed map 57–41 — → ledger
• 2025-12-11 — Indiana Senate rejects map 19–31 — → ledger
• 2026-02-04 — SCOTUS declines to block California’s Prop 50 map — → ledger
• 2026-02-06 — AP: Census Bureau plans citizenship-question form for 2030 test — → ledger
• 2026-03-02 — SCOTUS stays New York redraw — → ledger
• 2026-04-22 — Trump calls Virginia referendum “RIGGED” — → ledger
• 2026-04-27 — SCOTUS formally reverses the El Paso ruling on Texas’s map — → ledger
• 2026-04-29 — Louisiana v. Callais; House primary suspended — → ledger
• 2026-05-04 — DeSantis signs Florida map; injunction denied May 26 — → ledger
• 2026-05-05 — Indiana primary: five GOP senators who opposed the map lose — → ledger
• 2026-05-06 — FBI searches Sen. Lucas’s office; indicted mid-October — → ledger
• 2026-05-08 — Virginia Supreme Court voids amendment; SCOTUS denies stay May 15 — → ledger
• 2026-05-12 — Missouri Supreme Court keeps 2025 map in effect during signature review — → ledger
• 2026-05-18 — SCOTUS reverses Mississippi legislative redraw order — → ledger
• 2026-05-26 — South Carolina redraw fails — → ledger
• 2026-05-26 — Preliminary injunction against Florida map denied — → ledger
• 2026-05-29 — Post-Callais Southern re-maps; Alabama stay; Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana challenge — → ledger
• 2026-06-17 — New York gives first passage to SB 10637 (mid-decade redistricting amendment) — → ledger
• 2026-06-29 — Colorado Supreme Court throws out three redistricting initiatives — → ledger
• 2026-08-04 — Missouri referendum blocked — → ledger
• 2026-08-31 — Colorado Amendment 86 certified as the only redistricting question — → ledger
• 2026-09-03 — Missouri Supreme Court blocks 2025 map pending the referendum — → ledger
• 2026-09-03 — Maryland Supreme Court puts redistricting amendment on the ballot — → ledger
• 2026-09-10 — Missouri secretary of state concedes after contempt finding — → ledger
• 2026-09-25 — SCOTUS stays lower-court orders to use Missouri’s 2025 map; 2022 map stays — → ledger
• 2026-10-05 — SCOTUS vacates Washington map ruling — → ledger
• 2026-10-22 — DOJ unseals racketeering indictment of Sen. Lucas — → ledger
• 2026-11-03 — Midterm redistricting results; TN-9, AL-2, LA-6 runoff — → ledger
• 2026-11-03 — Midterm ballot measures; Missouri Prop A rejected; Colorado Amendment 86 short of 55% — → ledger
• 2026-11-03 — Texas GOP nets −1 seat under its 2025 map — → ledger
• 2026-11-03 — Missouri voters reject Prop A and approve Amendment 6 — → ledger
• 2026-11-03 — Maryland Question 3 approved; HB 488 died; Sept 3 ballot ruling — → ledger

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