NPR

Georgia lawmakers will redraw political maps that disenfranchised Black voters

Georgia lawmakers are set to hold a special session to consider new political maps after a judge found the state's existing districts diluted the power of Black voters. Georgia lawmakers return to ...
NPR

Georgia lawmakers gather for a judge-ordered assignment: Make new voting maps

ATLANTA — A special legislative session begins Wednesday in Georgia to redraw the state's political maps after a federal judge ruled that the current district lines illegally dilute the power of Black ...
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Battle over Georgia’s political maps reset after court tosses out earlier decision

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A federal appeals court has erased a lower court’s ruling that found Georgia’s post-2020 congressional and legislative voting maps violated the Voting Rights Act, ...
nytimes.com

Georgia’s Voting Maps Are Struck Down

Republicans in the state violated a landmark civil rights law in drawing maps that diluted the power of Black voters, a federal judge in Atlanta ruled. By Emily Cochrane and Rick Rojas Republicans in ...
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'Redraw the maps now' | Georgia Republicans seize on Supreme Court gerrymandering ruling

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Georgia Republicans wasted no time in calling on state lawmakers to redraw the Peach State’s congressional maps after Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ...
Politico

Georgia’s congressional map violates Voting Rights Act, court finds

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. A ...