A legislative redistricting dispute in North Dakota involving the Voting Rights Act is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Spirit Lake Nation and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa asked the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals not to reinstate a ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its decision in a redistricting case that went against two Native ...

North Dakota lawmakers pore over legislative maps proposed by two Native tribes at the state Capitol in Bismarck, North Dakota, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File) ...

North Dakota North Dakota legislative map illegally disenfranchises Native voters, judge says ND secretary of state, GOP-led Legislature have until Dec. 22 to 'remedy the violation' ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – An appeals court will not reconsider its decision finding that the Turtle Mountain ...

BISMARCK — North Dakota's fourth legislative district will remain spliced after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, Jan. 13, rejected a challenge to overturn a redrawn district map.

Unless North Dakota lawmakers get an 11th-hour reprieve, they will miss the deadline to redraw a legislative map that, according to a federal judge, violated the rights of Native American voters.

Native Vote. After the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its decision to deny voters in seven states the ability to seek fair representation, the Native American Rights Fund and its ...

In the lawsuit, filed in 2022, two North Dakota tribes and three Indigenous North Dakotans argued that a redistricting plan adopted by the state in 2021 diluted the power of Native voters, thereby ...

The case stems from a legislative redistricting plan approved by the North Dakota Legislature in 2021 following the 2020 Census that put ... legislature because of the 2021 legislative map. ...

The latest ruling is a reversal for two Native American tribes in North Dakota who had successfully challenged the Legislature's 2021 redistricting map as diluting their voting strength.