redistricting commission

There's a chance the new map drafts will be discarded before they're ever used, as the commission is appealing the court ruling that ordered it to draw new districts.

A federal court has laid out a timeline for Michigan’s redistricting commission to finish redrawing seven state House district maps the court declared unconstitutional.

The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission ordered to make quick changes, the Arab American experience though Dearborn voices, a Flint inventor who gave us two-sided toast and the electric oven, and delivering doughnuts on the Great Lakes.

Parties in a lawsuit that struck down several metro-Detroit state House and Senate districts met in federal court Friday to discuss what happens next.

It was the first vote for three new commissioners who were named to the group Wednesday and sworn in Thursday.

The three would join the redistricting commission during a turbulent time. A federal court has ordered the group to redraw 13 metro Detroit House and Senate districts.

A federal court ruled several Metro Detroit districts in the maps violated the Voting Rights Act because race was predominant in the way they were drawn.

Two more members of Michigan’s redistricting commission announced their resignations Tuesday.

The boundaries in question generally split the majority-Black city of Detroit into districts shared with its whiter suburbs. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit claimed that harmed Black voters’ ability to elect their candidates of choice.

The suit alleges state House and Senate maps drawn by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission violate the 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.