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Republicans in Georgia violated a landmark civil rights law in drawing voting maps that diluted the power of Black voters, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled on Thursday, ordering that new maps must ...
Those maps were thrown out by a judge, who redrew the maps in 2004, leading the way for Republicans to assume control of the Georgia House. Republicans took control of the Senate after the 2002 ...
The Georgia Capitol is seen on Aug. 27, 2022, in front of the Atlanta skyline. State lawmakers will gather Wednesday to start work on new political district maps.
Maps drawing the boundaries for congressional and state legislative districts in Georgia violate the Voting Rights Act and must be redrawn, a federal judge has ruled. Judge Jones’ decision on 26 ...
A federal judge Thursday ordered Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps, ruling that state legislators improperly diluted the political power of Black voters in establishing ...
We’ve passed the halfway point between the 2020 U.S. Census and the 2030 U.S. Census, but the battle over redistricting maps based on the last national headcount is still underway in Georgia.
A federal judge in Atlanta ruled Thursday that Georgia’s redrawn congressional maps violate the Voting Rights Act and gave the state's lawmakers until Dec. 8 to submit new ones.
In late October, a federal court ruled that Georgia’s electoral maps violated the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against Black ... The Black population would fall from 30 percent to just ...
Judge orders new maps after finding Georgia redistricting ‘dilutes Black voting power’ By Stephen Fowler, October 26, 2023. Photo by Stephen Fowler | GPB News. A federal judge ruled Thursday ...
But Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia, who first struck down the maps in late October, said that the legislature had now done enough to comply with the Voting Rights Act ...