Anti-Rigging Act of 2025

Key Points

• This bill would stop states from redrawing their Congressional voting district maps more than once after each census. Right now, nothing prevents a state legislature from redrawing maps in the middle of a decade to gain a political advantage.
• The only exception would be if a court orders a state to redraw its maps because the current ones violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act. This ensures maps that break the law can still be fixed.
• The bill only applies to U.S. House of Representatives districts. It does not affect how states draw maps for state legislature seats, city councils, or any other local elections.
• If passed, the law would apply retroactively to any redistricting that happened after the 2020 census. This means states that have already redrawn their maps once since 2020 would be blocked from doing it again before the 2030 census.
• Congress claims the authority to pass this law based on Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution, which gives Congress power over the time, place, and manner of elections, and the 14th Amendment's requirement that representatives be apportioned by population.

Votes

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