Federal Judge Accepts Redrawn Peach State Voting Maps That Will Favor GOP in 2024
The redrawing of the districts this year is among numerous redistricting actions that took place across the South after the Supreme Court upheld the 1964 Voting Rights Act in June, clearing the way for Black voters to win changes from courts.
ATLANTA — A federal judge on Thursday accepted new Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts that protect Republican partisan advantages, saying the creation of new majority-Black voting districts solved the illegal minority vote dilution that led him to order maps to be redrawn.
Judge Steve Jones, in three separate but similarly worded orders, rejected claims that the new maps don’t do enough to help Black voters. Judge Jones said he can’t interfere with legislative choices, even if Republicans moved to protect their power. The maps were redrawn in a recent special legislative session after Judge Jones in October ruled that maps drawn in 2021 illegally harmed Black voters.
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