Celebrations sounded Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a Republican state official's attempt to usher in a newly drawn GOP congressional map in Missouri ahead of the midterm elections.The ...

via US news | The Guardian — New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history Early this month, a single pen stroke effectively ended representative Steve Cohen’s career in Congress. The man who has represented Memphis for 19 years will turn 77 later this month, but he wasn’t planning on retiring. He hadn’t lost any primary. The reason was that his district had been erased around him. A new electoral map , passed by the Republican-led state legislature and signed by Bill

via US news | The Guardian — The supreme court has gutted one of the strongest federal tools we had against the most effective weapon in US politics Maps can guide us home. They show us where we are, where we have been and where we might go. Electoral maps can do something even more sinister, though. They often tell us what and who is allowed to matter. They can decide, before a single ballot is cast, whether an entire voting bloc will become powerful or be buried by the design of a party that is indifferent – at best – to