A federal judge has ordered Mississippi to redraw its Supreme Court district lines, after determining they violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock ruled the map — which has remained mostly unchanged for over a century — unlawfully dilutes the power of Black voters. Mississippi has had just four Black Supreme Court justices in its entire history, even though Mississippi’s population is nearly 40% African American.

In Texas, Democratic state Representative Nicole Collier has filed a lawsuit challenging the authority of Republican leaders to put lawmakers under police surveillance. On Monday, Collier was confined to the Texas state Capitol overnight after she refused to be followed by state police monitors assigned to surveil her every move — a requirement for Democrats who had fled Texas over a plan to redraw the state’s congressional district maps to give Republicans five additional seats in the 2026 midterm elections. Collier spent a second night locked in Texas’s state Capitol on Tuesday, joined in solidarity by fellow state representatives.

Meanwhile, in California, Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit seeking to block a bid by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom to redraw California’s congressional maps to give Democrats five additional House seats. Newsom has said the move is specifically designed to counteract Republican gerrymandering in Texas.