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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

In Kansas and elsewhere, some state lawmakers are skeptical of the redistricting rush

But even in a state that went for Trump by 16 percentage points in 2024, Republicans could not rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. "I haven't heard a good reason yet to vote for it," said Mark Schreiber, one of 10 Republican holdouts in the Kansas state House. "To me that's not the purpose of redistricting. It's not used as a political tool to increase your majority, it's to adjust for population changes."
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fromAxios
3 weeks ago

The national redistricting wars are entering a new, more existential phase

State-level partisan actors are pursuing mid-decade redistricting to maximize congressional advantage, risking an escalating, zero-sum arms race over mapmaking.
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