That’s good news for Democrats: They have an opportunity in several states to draw more favorable congressional and state legislative maps ahead of 2018 elections. A federal court also recently found that a 2011 Texas voter ID law discriminated against minorities. January: Wisconsin and Alabama GOP-drawn state legislative maps get thrown out, courts ask state legislatures to redrawAlabama: A federal court found a dozen state legislative districts in Alabama were unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered. All 12 state legislative districts that were thrown out were represented by Democrats, 10 of them by African American legislators. Wisconsin’s attorney general, a Republican, has appealed to the Supreme Court.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2017 19:20 UTC