Michigan redistricting

Michigan’s redistricting commission has been done with maps for months. The panel’s attorneys have offered guidance on how to wind down.

The southeast Michigan county is anchoring its own congressional district, and the candidates reflect the region’s growing diversity. With Michigan losing a seat, it could prove pivotal.

Michigan’s citizen commission is still meeting — and getting paid. How much longer? Nobody knows.

New state House maps appear to be set for the next decade after the Michigan Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit alleging they will create an unfair partisan advantage for Republican candidates.

Michigan redistricting commissioners had already finished drawing new political maps when they gave themselves a pay raise in February. Now, they’re reversing the raise as they consider disbanding for the decade.

The maps are set to take effect this month, but one commissioner says the 7 percent raise is justified because the panel is his full-time job now.

A constitutional amendment creating the citizen panel in 2018 didn’t specify when its work would end. Now, members are not only still convening, but giving themselves pay raises.

America’s Blackest big city may face a future without a Black representative in Congress, thanks to new political districts and competition among Democrats.

The 13-member citizen panel has been beset with bickering and accusations of bullying. Now, a commissioner is suing the group on claims it violated the Freedom of Information Act.

The nonpartisan group is partnering with a Washington D.C. law center in seeking to intervene against a Republican lawsuit challenging new congressional boundaries.

Political maps created by Michigan’s new independent redistricting have survived the first in a series of legal challenges.

League of Women Voters, other groups target Michigan House map. Groups representing Democrats and Republicans also have sued the redistricting panel.

Commissioners swap insults, accuse the chair of bullying and vote to spend $50,000 on a documentary about themselves in the face of a nearly $1 million deficit.

Julianne Pastula’s resignation came hours after oral arguments in one of the two legal challenges pending against the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Bridge Michigan capitol reporter Sergio Martínez-Beltrán moderated a Zoom discussion with three experts on the state’s new electoral maps.

Michigan Supreme Court hears oral arguments over racial composition of new districts. Makers of the maps say minorities don’t need to be in majority to elect candidates.

The suit claims the districts violate the constitution because they don’t have even populations. One of the plaintiffs is challenging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for re-election.

The redrawn redistricting maps give Democrats the first chance in a generation to flip the Michigan Legislature. But Black leaders say it could happen at the expense of electing Black candidates.

The commission contended Blacks will get more political power by being spread out in multiple districts. Lawmakers disagree.