redistricting

Only three of the new proposed plans for redrawing some metro-Detroit state House districts comply with the Voting Rights Act, according to a new analysis presented to Michigan’s redistricting commission Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request from Michigan’s redistricting commission to overrule an order to redraw 13 Detroit-area seats in the Legislature.

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.

A federal court has given Michigan’s redistricting commission until February 2 to redraw seven state House districts after they were declared unconstitutional.

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.