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Dec 11 2023
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Arkansas redistricting lawsuit petitions against court decision
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Advocacy groups filed a petition Monday to keep a lawsuit alive, arguing citizens have a right to sue the government under the Voting Rights Act to prevent discrimination. The NAACP and ACLU suit filed in December 2021 against the Arkansas Board of Apportionment alleges Arkansas’s new redistricting maps for elections disproportionately represent black voters with just 11
Fox16Dec 11 2023
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Arkansas redistricting lawsuit petitions against court decision
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Advocacy groups filed a petition Monday to keep a lawsuit alive, arguing citizens have a right to sue the government under the Voting Rights Act to prevent discrimination. The NAACP and ACLU suit filed in December 2021 against the Arkansas Board of Apportionment alleges Arkansas’s new redistricting maps for elections disproportionately represent black voters with just 11
KARKDec 28 2023
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Rep. Lucy McBath to switch districts due to Georgia redistricting
Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) announced Thursday that she will pursue election in Georgia’s 6th District in 2024 after a federal judge approved a GOP-led redistricting plan, which changed her current 7th District seat to favor Republicans. The Atlanta congresswoman promised to continue a legal fight against the new district maps but vowed to run in the 6th District if the current maps stand. “I
The HillApr 24 2024
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Stone v. Allen
On November 16, 2021, the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Southern Poverty Law Center, and co-counsel filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of several Black individual plaintiffs, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, and Greater Birmingham Ministries, challenging Alabama’s newly drawn state legislative maps as racial gerrymanders. The complaint alleged that the maps for the State
ACLUSep 27 2023
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SCOTUS Again Rejects Alabama’s Gerrymandered Maps
The Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s bid to use a Republican-gerrymandered congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district. It’s the second such ruling in just three months, after the Supreme Court in June ruled the map violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered Alabama to include another majority-Black district in the seven-district state. Over one-quarter of Alabama’s
Democracy Now!Oct 24 2023
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'Sheer insanity': NC Republicans on track to pass gerrymandered map erasing 4 Democratic districts
Republicans in North Carolina appear poised to pass one of the most extreme redistricting maps in the US, with little in the way of opposition. Last week, WUNC reported that Republicans' proposed new maps are much more favorable to the GOP than the court-drawn maps used in 2022, which split representation evenly with both Democrats and Republicans having seven House seats apiece. The new
AlterNetJan 30 2024
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Dem Wisconsin Gov Vetoes Republican Redistricting: 'I Will Always Fight For Fair Maps'
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday vetoed the redistricting maps passed by Republicans, saying he "will always fight for fair maps." "Wisconsinites don't want Republican or Democrat maps because Wisconsin isn't a red or blue state. We're a purple state and our map should reflect that basic fact," Evers said on a statement posted to his social media. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered
The MessengerSep 06 2023
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Alabama Supreme Court Rips State Map That Gerrymandered Black Votes in Scathing Ruling
A federal court is fed up with Alabama’s Republican-led state legislature after it submitted a new redistricting of its electoral map for approval—a redistricting that completely ignored a court order to create a second Black-majority district that wouldn’t screw over Black voters in the state. On Tuesday, the federal court issued a ruling throwing out the state’s new map because it still didn
JezebelNov 21 2023
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Wisconsin top court hears contentious case on gerrymandered districts
Liberals Tuesday urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn Republican-drawn legislative maps that have entrenched the GOP in dominant power despite the battleground state’s electorate being virtually evenly split between the two parties. Democrats are demanding fairer maps to better reflect the state’s narrow partisan divide and say the current maps were brazenly drawn to keep Republicans
New York Daily NewsNov 28 2023
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DPNM: New Mexico Supreme Court’s Redistricting Decision
ALBUQUERQUE — The Democratic Party of New Mexico released the following statement today’s New Mexico Supreme Court redistricting decision: “We are glad that the State Supreme Court ordered that the District Court’s redistricting decision will be upheld, hopefully putting to rest months of frivolous distractions from Steve Pearce’s New Mexico Republican Party. After a non-partisan, deliberative
Los Alamos Daily Post