An attempt to ram through a partisan redistricting map by Virginia State Senate Republicans has been blocked by the speaker of the state's House of Delegates. 

Here's a look at some of the key battles in the states from the past week.

TPM reports that a preliminary Justice Department investigation finds that the redistricting plan approved by presidential candidate and Texas governor Rick Perry (R) appears to have been “adopted, at least in part, for the purpose of diminishing the ability of [minorities] to elect their preferred candidates of choice to Congress.”

This is a cross-post from the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO blog.

With last night’s victory for the people of Wisconsin under way, GOP legislators are getting nervous. They are so scared that they are proposing changes to legislative maps, which heavily favor Republicans over the people of Wisconsin.