The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on a new case on partisan redistricting for now.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is resolving partisan redistricting cases from Wisconsin and Maryland without ruling on the broader issue of whether electoral maps can give an unfair advantage to a political party.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has already heard a major case about political line-drawing that has the potential to reshape American politics. Now, before even deciding that one, the court is taking up another similar case.

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Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin have been structurally disempowered by the most crooked of political maneuvers.

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On Oct. 3, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Gill v. Whitford.

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In what could lead to a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court last week heard arguments in a Wisconsin case that challenges the despicable practice of political parties drawing up legislative and congressional districts to lock in their power and disenfranchise voters.

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A seemingly divided U.S. Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether to strike down a Wisconsin redistricting plan because it is too partisan, in a case that could affect elections across the country.

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One of the first cases that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear this term could make a huge difference in how legislative and congressional districts are drawn.

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Democrats and Republicans are poised for a Supreme Court fight about political line-drawing that could change the balance of power in a country starkly divided between the two parties.

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The chairman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule quickly in a challenge of how the state's political boundaries were drawn following redistricting in 2011.

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The 2016 presidential contest was awash with charges that the fix was in: Republican Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was rigged against him, while Democrats have accused the Russians of stacking the odds in Trump's favor.

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The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a momentous fight over parties manipulating electoral districts to gain partisan advantage in a case that could affect the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans across the United States.

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Voters suing to overturn Wisconsin's Republican-drawn legislative districts want the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the state's request to delay a lower-court decision ordering lawmakers to set new maps by next year's elections.

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My, my, how time flies when we are having redistricting fun.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel wants the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an order to redraw Wisconsin's legislative district boundaries.

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The U.S. Supreme Court struck down two congressional districts in North Carolina on Monday because race played too large a role in their creation.

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Wisconsin's attorney general is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the state's Republican-drawn legislative districts.

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A group of voters is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a ruling striking down Wisconsin's GOP-drawn legislative districts.

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Wisconsin's Republican attorney general told the U.S. Supreme Court in a legal filing Friday that a ruling striking down GOP-drawn legislative boundaries in the state as unconstitutional is "unprecedented."

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Taxpayers could be on the hook for another $175,000 in legal fees under an agreement released Wednesday that Republican legislative leaders reached with a law firm to represent them in a redistricting lawsuit.

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Republican lawmakers planned to vote Thursday on whether to hire their own attorneys to represent them in the legal fight over legislative district boundaries.

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A panel of federal judges has ordered the Wisconsin Legislature to redraw legislative boundaries by November, rejecting calls from those challenging the maps to have the judges do the work.

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Republican lawmakers should be allowed to redraw legislative boundaries if the U.S. Supreme Court says they must be recast, state attorneys told a panel of federal judges in a filing Thursday.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice says the state Legislature should not go about the task of redrawing legislative boundaries until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case.

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Attorneys who won a ruling that Wisconsin's legislative boundaries are unconstitutional say it's too soon to think about a new round of elections.

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Federal judges struck down Wisconsin's Republican-drawn legislative districts as unconstitutional on Monday, marking a victory for minority Democrats that could force the Legislature to redraw the maps.

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Federal judges struck down Wisconsin's Republican-drawn legislative districts as unconstitutional on Monday, marking a victory for minority Democrats that could force the Legislature to redraw the maps.

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Republican lawmakers relied too heavily on race when they redrew North Carolina's congressional districts to give the GOP a powerful advantage in the swing state.

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A GOP plan that reworked the Wisconsin Assembly's district lines was one of the worst examples of partisan gerrymandering in American history, an attorney challenging the new boundaries argued Tuesday.

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A federal judge will launch a three-day trial this week to decide whether legislative district boundaries that Wisconsin Republicans drew four years ago amount to an unconstitutional attempt to consolidate power.

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