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Ohio Voters File Motion to Intervene in Federal Redistricting Suit that Would Impose Unfair Maps

Petitioners in lawsuit challenging partisan gerrymandering in new legislative maps filed motion to intervene as plaintiffs in federal lawsuit that would impose gerrymandered plans.
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- February 25, 2022
Petitioners Ask Ohio Supreme Court to Enforce Order Against the Ohio Redistricting Commission

The Ohio Redistricting Commission Failed to Draw a Third Set of Legislative Maps in Defiance of the Court’s Order
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- February 18, 2022
Preliminary Injunction Blocks Part of Texas Law Censoring Election Officials and Workers on Mail Voting

The order prohibits district attorneys in three counties from prosecuting plaintiffs under the challenged law, and also prohibits the Texas attorney general and the same district attorneys from seeking civil penalties.
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- February 11, 2022
Ohio Supreme Court Orders Second Redrawing of Legislative Maps Due to Partisan Gerrymandering

Court Throws Out Second Plan from the Ohio Redistricting Commission, Finding that Revised Maps Also Violate the Ohio Constitution
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- February 7, 2022
Petitioners Ask Ohio Supreme Court to Reject Redrawn Legislative Maps

New maps’ illegal partisan gerrymandering violates Ohio constitution.
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- January 26, 2022
Senate Votes No on Changing Filibuster Rules: Brennan Center President Reacts

Unless we restore the Senate and let the majority prevail, the Voting Rights Act remains gravely weakened. Phony audits will continue. Election officials will continue to face threats. Racial discrimination in voting can worsen.
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- January 19, 2022
New Edition of Michael Waldman’s The Fight to Vote Puts Today’s Attacks on Democracy in the Context of History

Brings the story of voting rights from the Framers to the present; reflects on our democracy’s future.
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- January 14, 2022
Brennan Center Reacts: House Vote on Voting Rights Legislation

Now the Senate must act.
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- January 13, 2022
Victory for Ohioans: Ohio Supreme Court Throws Out Legislative Maps for Illegal Partisan Gerrymandering

In a major win for Black, Muslim, and immigrant Ohioans, the court strikes down legislative maps adopted in September by the Ohio Redistricting Commission.
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- January 12, 2022
Brennan Center Files for Preliminary Injunction Against Texas’s S.B. 1 for Censoring Election Officials on Mail Voting

Provision in S.B. 1 forbids election officials from encouraging voters to apply for mail ballots; punishment is six months in jail, minimum, and a fine of up to $10,000
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- December 28, 2021

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Ohio Voters File Motion to Intervene in Federal Redistricting Suit that Would Impose Unfair Maps

Petitioners Ask Ohio Supreme Court to Enforce Order Against the Ohio Redistricting Commission

Preliminary Injunction Blocks Part of Texas Law Censoring Election Officials and Workers on Mail Voting

Ohio Supreme Court Orders Second Redrawing of Legislative Maps Due to Partisan Gerrymandering

Petitioners Ask Ohio Supreme Court to Reject Redrawn Legislative Maps

Senate Votes No on Changing Filibuster Rules: Brennan Center President Reacts

New Edition of Michael Waldman’s The Fight to Vote Puts Today’s Attacks on Democracy in the Context of History

Brennan Center Reacts: House Vote on Voting Rights Legislation

Victory for Ohioans: Ohio Supreme Court Throws Out Legislative Maps for Illegal Partisan Gerrymandering

Brennan Center Files for Preliminary Injunction Against Texas’s S.B. 1 for Censoring Election Officials on Mail Voting

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