ATLANTA — Brushing aside concerns that they may be breaking law that protects coalitions of nonwhite voters, Georgia state senators on Tuesday passed a new congressional map that would maintain a ...
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 ...
The new lines could, theoretically, help tilt control of Congress. Georgia lawmakers recently returned to Atlanta for a special session to redraw the state's political maps and expand the power of ...
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 ...
The president has pressured GOP-led states to redraw maps to expand Republican control of Congress — but Georgia lawmakers indicate they’re waiting on the Supreme Court before making any moves. Lawyer ...
Georgia Republicans have advanced new legislative maps that would preserve majorities in the state House and Senate. The proposed maps do not reveal how they plan to redraw Georgia's 14 congressional ...
Georgia Republican legislators refused to create an additional congressional district with a majority of Black voters and people of color, unveiling a map Friday that could defy a judge’s ruling that ...
ATLANTA - Georgia Republicans on Friday proposed to redraw the state’s congressional districts to create a new court-ordered Black majority district, maintaining the current 9-5 Republican ...
ATLANTA — Challengers on Thursday told a federal appeals court that Georgia lawmakers are still violating Black voters’ rights after redrawing the state’s congressional and legislative maps. If judges ...
Georgia state Sen. John Kennedy, R-Macon, introduces a map of state Senate districts in this 2021 file photo. A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and ...
Dec. 9 (UPI) --Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation redrawing the state's congressional map after the previous one, also drawn up by Republican state lawmakers, was ruled unconstitutional.
The judge found that the Georgia legislature had complied with orders to allow Black voters an equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice. By Maya King and Emily Cochrane Maya King, ...