A federal court in Michigan was the latest to hand down a ruling striking down a legislative map as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. Voters and a voting rights group in the state won their challenge Thursday in a suit that targeted a total of 34 districts from the GOP-drawn state House, state Senate and U.S. congressional map. The ruling comes as we wait for the Supreme Court to hand down its decisions in two partisan gerrymandering cases it heard earlier this term.

A lawsuit brought against Texas for its error-ridden voter fraud allegations list looks close to resolution with a proposed settlement in the case announced Friday and a judge on Monday dismissing some of the suit’s claims in light of the agreement. Under the settlement, the state would significantly narrow its use of driver’s license data to identify alleged noncitizens on its voter rolls. When it originally assembled the list released in January, the state identified thousands of eligible voters who had been caught up in the list because the data Texas was using was outdated.

The Supreme Court heard its closely watched census case Tuesday, in which it will decide whether a citizenship question will stay on the 2020 survey. The court’s conservatives appear ready to bend over backwards to let the question stay on the census, despite multiple court rulings that it is unconstitutional and a violation of administrative law. The question stands to have major voting rights implications, as the census count is used to apportion political representation across the country; asking about citizenship on the survey will discourage some immigrants from being counted.

In the investigation the U.S. House is doing into why the question was added, we hit a major flashpoint last week, with a top Justice Department official opting to defy a subpoena for a deposition slated for Thursday. The Department has insisted that one of its own lawyers accompany the official, John Gore, for the deposition, a request the House Oversight Committee declined based on its own longstanding rules. Gore was deeply involved in putting together a Justice Department request that the Census Bureau add the question.

Another concern about the question is that the data it produces will be used to exclude noncitizens from redistricting — another way to diminish the political power of immigrant communities and to boost the representation of rural, white areas. It appears that the Missouri GOP legislature is contemplating such a move with a bill that would put on the ballot a subtle change to the state’s redistricting standard. More broadly, the bill would also gut an anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative that passed last year. It already has the approval of the state House but its fate in the state Senate is less certain. If it is passed by the legislature this month, voters will have final approval.

Florida’s GOP legislature has advanced legislation that would undermine a recently passed ballot initiative giving former felons the right to vote. The state House passed a bill that would require ex-felons to have fully paid back all their fines and fees — including the service fees for their supervision that go beyond fines that were in their sentence — before their franchise is restored.