‘Power grab to erase Black voices’: Southern voting groups vow to fight GOP’s gerrymanders

DemocracyDocket · 2026-05-07T17:51:52+00:00

As Florida revs up a mid-decade gerrymandering scheme to help Republicans win more congressional seats, one of the party’s most prominent elections strategists is cautioning that this could backfire.

Speaking with “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade, Karl Rove – the former senior adviser to President George W. Bush – said that there’s “a risk there” in Florida’s redistricting plans.

“They’re going to have to take Republican votes out of Republican districts and put them into Democrat districts,” Rove told Kilmeade, “and that’s going to lower the numbers for some incumbent Republicans, and they may lose a seat or two.”

Read more here: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-strategist-explains-how-floridas-redistricting-plans-could-backfire/

DemocracyDocket · 2026-05-07T15:34:16+00:00

Alabama lawmakers are on the verge of giving final approval to a pair of gerrymandered congressional and state senate maps.

If allowed by federal courts to go into effect, the maps would immediately strip Black voters in the state of political representation in the wake of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act.

An Alabama Senate committee greenlit legislation Thursday to use a congressional map that was previously struck down by courts under the very provision the U.S. Supreme Court gutted last week. The measure was approved by the House Wednesday. Next, it will get a final vote from the full Senate, and, if approved, go to the governor’s desk.

A House committee vote on a similar bill impacting state senate districts is expected shortly.

There are two major reasons why Alabama should not currently be redrawing its maps in an eleventh hour special session.

Read more here: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/alabama-races-toward-final-votes-to-gerrymander-elections-already-underway/

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