The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down a challenge by Democratic-aligned groups to a new map for state House seats.

Yet another lawsuit is being filed over Michigan’s new district maps that would draw new lines for voters for the next 10 years.

An attorney for Michigan’s redistricting commission is defending new maps for seats in Congress and the Legislature.

If the newly redrawn Michigan political maps withstand legal challenges, it means Metro Detroit will have an open Congressional seat -- which is likely to bring in a gold rush of candidates.

Michigan U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she will run for re-election in the new 12th Congressional District created by the redistricting committee.

This is the first of what we expect to be several lawsuits arguing the state of Michigan’s new districts violate federal law.

An independent commission of citizens have redrawn Michigan’s political districts for the first time in the state’s history -- but not everyone is on board with the changes.

Michigan is looking at what will likely be a dramatic set of midterm elections this year after the state’s political maps were redrawn.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed legislation to prohibit Michigan’s new redistricting commission from citing exceptions under the Open Meetings Act to hold closed sessions.

The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered the state’s new redistricting commission to release a recording of a closed October meeting as well as certain documents sought by news organizations.

Lawmakers from both parties are asking Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to investigate after a meeting of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission held a closed session.

The citizens commission tasked with redrawing Michigan’s political maps received an email death threat on Wednesday (Oct. 27). The death threats did not target a specific individual.

Members of Michigan’s redistricting commission are urging residents to speak up about draft congressional and legislative maps.

The process surrounding redrawing Michigan’s political maps has been anything but easy. On Tuesday parties on both sides of the aisle responded.

A Michigan commission drawing new maps for seats in Congress and the Legislature is being sued over its plan to skip a Nov. 1 deadline to create the districts.

An independent commission is drawing out Michigan’s new political maps, but time is running out to get the job done.

The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday denied a petition to grant relief to the state’s redistricting panel, who expects to adopt new congressional and legislative maps months later than allowed by the constitution.

A clash over the Michigan Constitution has hit the state’s highest court.

LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s redistricting commission will ask the state Supreme Court to delay the deadline to finish new congressional and legislative maps by nearly three months and give candidates 25 extra days to file to run. The pending request is due to an eight-month delay in data from the U.S. Census bureau. It wants a Jan. 25 deadline to adopt the lines, following a 45-day public comment period. The current deadline is Nov. 1 under a 2018 anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment that created the commission, which will draw maps instead of the Legislature. It was updated on March 26 to correct that the delay in drawing new political maps would be nearly three months, not nearly two months.

The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission is comprised of four Republicans, four Democrats and five independents who were selected at random from a pool of more than 9,000 applicants. The commission is made up of people from most parts of the state, but most come from eastern Michigan and none live in the Upper Peninsula. Three of the 13 are not white, which is roughly in line with the percentage of non-white residents in the state. The commission will begin meeting in the fall and use census data to redraw lines by Nov. 1, 2021. The commission was formed after voters passed a state constitutional amendment in 2018 to allow an independent group of Michigan residents, instead of partisan legislators, to redraw the states electoral boundaries.

DETROIT Michigans Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is denying to rehear cases filed by parties questioning the constitutionality of Michigans Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. One lawsuit was filed by Michigan citizens claiming that the eligibility criteria to serve as a commissioner is unconstitutional. The plaintiffs appealed the cases after a district court initially denied the motions. The Sixth Circuit Court upheld the district courts decision in April, and again denied to rehear the cases Friday. The goal of Michigans Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission is to level the playing field through bipartisan redistricting.