A federal decide on Thursday accredited a GOP-drawn Georgia congressional map in a win for Republicans.
US District Choose Steve Jones, an Obama appointee on Thursday mentioned the GOP-led Common Meeting “totally complied” together with his earlier order which required a majority-black congressional district in part of Atlanta.
CBS Information reported that the accredited congressional map nonetheless “maintains Republicans’ 9-5 edge for its congressional delegation.”
“The brand new congressional map finalized forward of Jones’ deadline preserved Republicans’ majority for its congressional delegation and drastically altered the district represented by Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath, the seventh Congressional District. Lawmakers drew a brand new majority-Black district west of metro Atlanta, situated in parts of Cobb, Douglas and Fulton Counties.” the outlet reported.
CBS Information reported:
A federal decide in Georgia on Thursday accredited a congressional map redrawn by the state’s GOP-led legislature after its authentic voting traces have been discovered to be crafted in violation of federal voting rights regulation.
U.S. District Choose Steve Jones mentioned in a 15-page order that the Common Meeting “totally complied” together with his October order that required the creation of a majority-Black congressional district within the western a part of metro Atlanta. His acceptance of the brand new map, which maintains Republicans’ 9-5 edge for its congressional delegation, units up the brand new bounds for use within the 2024 election.
Jones additionally accredited new legislative maps for state Senate and Home districts, which he discovered have been initially crafted in a racially discriminatory method. The decide mentioned in his earlier order that state lawmakers needed to redraw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia’s state Senate and 5 new Black-majority districts in its state Home.
