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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party".
Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. (July 20, 1894 – September 10, 1949) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1943 to 1949. The ninth and final justice appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he is best known for his impassioned defenses of civil liberties.
The legality of abortion in the United States and the restrictions imposed on the procedure vary significantly, among the states or other jurisdictions. There is no uniform federal law. Some states prohibit abortion at any stage of pregnancy with few exceptions; others permit it up to a certain point in pregnancy, while some allow abortion throughout a pregnancy.
2026 United States House of Representatives elections
The 2026 United States House of Representatives elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, as part of the 2026 midterm elections during President Donald Trump's second nonconsecutive term. Voters will elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the fifty U.S. states, and five of the six non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories.
Special elections are also being held on dates throughout 2026.
Beginning in July 2025, several U.S. states have redrawn or have attempted to redraw their congressional districts ahead of the 2026 United States House of Representatives elections, with multiple other states planning to draw new maps before the 2028 elections. These efforts mark the largest coordinated attempt to redraw congressional districts between decennial censuses in modern American history.
The redistricting began when Texas gerrymandered its congressional map to benefit Republicans upon President Donald Trump's request.
The 2026 Virginia redistricting referendum appeared on the April 21, 2026, ballot in the state of Virginia as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The amendment passed by a slim margin, but it was subsequently struck down by the Supreme Court of Virginia. As such, the power to draw the state's congressional districts was retained by a bipartisan commission, and was not given back to the state legislature, as the amendment had intended to do.
Since 2025, the U.S. state of Florida and its Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, have faced pressure from national Republicans to review the state's congressional map as part of a broader national effort between red states and blue states to gain an advantage in the 2026 U.S. House elections. In Florida, the authority to redraw congressional districts lies solely with the Florida State Legislature.
At the 2024 general election, Florida's congressional plan returned twenty Republicans and eight Democrats to the 119th United States Congress.
Beginning in May 2026, several U.S. states have considered redrawing their congressional districts ahead of the 2028 United States House of Representatives election, as a reaction to the 2025-2026 United States redistricting.
The redistricting began when the 2026 Louisiana v. Callais decision was released, which limited challenges to gerrymandered maps using the Voting Rights Act of 1965, triggering Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to call a special session to redraw its congressional maps.