The president does not have the power to unilaterally change voting laws, and any executive order regarding elections is likely to see immediate legal challenges.
Some have emerged as a front line against Trump’s push to grab more seats in Congress, putting the issue at the center of their party’s politics. Others are ceding the spotlight.
The cash infusion is a rare move by the Democratic National Committee in deep-blue New Jersey, where Representative Mikie Sherrill narrowly leads her G.O.P. opponent.
As a Texas senator summoned the F.B.I. to round up Democrats, the redistricting war that began in Texas was spreading, with California aiming at five Republican House seats.
Here is why Democrats in the Texas House left the state, why Republicans in the Legislature want to redraw political maps and why other states are involved.
Republicans are pursuing every possible advantage, essentially trying to win elections long before people vote. In response, even some once-squeamish Democrats are talking about fighting ‘fire with fire.’
Mr. Holder, the attorney general in the Obama administration, has long fought to end gerrymandered legislative maps. But a Republican effort in Texas threatens democracy, he said in an interview.
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