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Updated Oct. 26, 2023 4:55 pm ET A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps to better represent Black voters after finding the state’s current maps violated a section of the federal Voting Rights Act. A group of civil activists and religious leaders challenged the maps drawn . […]
Kim Chandler / AP A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. A panel of three federal judges has taken the drawing of district maps out of state lawmakers hands after they were unable to present a proposal not […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor on Tuesday set a special legislative session to redraw congressional district maps that the U.S. Supreme Court declared unfair to Black voters. Gov. Kay Ivey set the July 17 session for the Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature after the high court upheld a three-judge panel’s ruling that the state illegally diluted […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s governor on Tuesday set a special legislative session to redraw congressional district maps that the U.S. Supreme Court declared unfair to Black voters. Gov. Kay Ivey set the July 17 session for the Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature after the high court upheld a three-judge panel’s ruling that the state illegally diluted […]
The US Supreme Court removed a stay Monday in Ardoin v. Robinson, unblocking a lower court order requiring Louisiana to redraw its congressional map to include a second majority-Black district. Louisiana had been accused of allegedly “packing” the majority of . . .
State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, D-Columbia, compares his proposed map of U.S. House districts drawn with 2020 U.S. Census data to a plan supported by Republicans on Jan. 20, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Federal judges are deciding whether South Carolina’s new congressional maps are legal in a lawsuit by the NAACP which says the districts dilute […]
State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, D-Columbia, compares his proposed map of U.S. House districts drawn with 2020 U.S. Census data to a plan supported by Republicans on Jan. 20, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Federal judges are deciding whether South Carolina’s new congressional maps are legal in a lawsuit by the NAACP which says the districts dilute […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has put on hold a district judge’s order for Louisiana to redraw new congressional districts by June 20 to include a second majority Black district. The order late Thursday from the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals is the latest move in a legal battle between the Republican […]
When I was a baby feminist, I would argue with friends that public space was political. I had been radicalised by my teenage years, sick to the back teeth of street harassment from men who seemed to think that the streets were theirs to roam freely, while women were relegated to decoration. It wasn’t a […]
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