January 09, 2025
Two local North Dakota Republican Party officials are urging the Supreme Court to take up their bid to reverse a lower court's ruling over newly created subdistricts for Native American voters, arguing that the "highly unusual" procedural posture of similar suits in the Eighth Circuit are likely to be overturned.
December 12, 2024
Two local North Dakota Republican Party officials lack standing to claim racial gerrymandering in a dispute over the state's newly created voting subdistricts, the federal government told the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing there's undisputed evidence to conclude that federal law requires the state to establish the boundaries.
June 10, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday invited the federal government to weigh in on a voting rights dispute in which two local North Dakota Republican officials seek to block newly created voting subdistricts for Native Americans after Secretary of State Michael Howe reversed course in the litigation.
May 21, 2024
Two local Republican Party officials are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's decision that gave a quick win to North Dakota over newly created voting subdistricts, arguing that Secretary of State Michael Howe's recent change of opinion in the litigation should alone resolve the issue.
May 08, 2024
In a move Native American tribes are calling "unconscionable," North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate and remand Voting Rights Act litigation, saying the state is unable to defend the basis for which it won the lawsuit.
January 03, 2024
Two North Dakota residents want the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal district court ruling that determined that two of the state's new House subdistricts, created to prevent Native American voter dilution, were legally drawn along the boundaries of the Fort Berthold and Turtle Mountain Indian reservations.
December 20, 2023
At least 100 civil rights groups, minority coalitions and Native American tribes in 2023 continued their challenges to voter redistricting efforts in at least half a dozen states, with more set to play out into the new year in the appellate courts.
March 02, 2023
Two North Dakota residents have asked a federal court to find that the legislature illegally redrew lines in two state House districts to include more Native Americans, arguing that lawmakers' creation of subdistricts was an unconstitutional form of racial gerrymandering.
February 07, 2023
A North Dakota federal court has said the state must produce video and audio transcripts of its legislative sessions as part of an ongoing case brought by two residents who allege the legislature intentionally redrew two House district lines to include more Native Americans, despite claims from the state that the redistricting was meant to be inclusive.
May 27, 2022
A North Dakota district court has refused to halt the state's new legislative map in response to a lawsuit claiming unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, finding the residents who objected to the new map are unlikely to prove that race drove the legislature's decision-making when it drew new boundaries.