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Lawmakers were called into special session after U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled in October that Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House maps violate federal law by diluting ...
ATLANTA — A federal judge has ruled that Georgia's congressional and state legislative districts must be redrawn before the 2024 election, reshaping the fight for control of Congress and the ...
A new map could shift one of Georgia’s 14 congressional seats from Republican to Democratic control. GOP lawmakers redrew the congressional map from an 8-6 Republican majority to a 9-5 ...
The new Georgia congressional map complies with Jones’ order to establish an additional Black-majority district but preserves the GOP’s 9-5 edge in its US House delegation.
ATLANTA - A Georgia special session to redraw congressional and legislative voting district maps has to ended Thursday after state lawmakers approved a Republican-favored congressional map that ...
A federal court on Thursday found that Georgia’s congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act, the latest Southern state to have its map struck down for discriminating against Black voters.
FILE – State Sen. John Kennedy, R-Macon, presents the newly-drawn congressional maps in the Senate Chambers during a special session at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.
A federal judge says some of Georgia's congressional, state Senate and state House districts are racially discriminatory, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional ...
A federal judge says some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House districts are racially discriminatory, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional ...
State Sen. John Kennedy, R-Macon, presents the newly-drawn congressional maps in the Senate Chambers during a special session at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.
ATLANTA — A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House districts were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner, ordering the state to draw ...