Republicans again target Democrat Lucy McBath in Georgia congressional map that keeps 9-5 GOP edge
1 year ago

Republicans again target Democrat Lucy McBath in Georgia congressional map that keeps 9-5 GOP edge

Associated Press  

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 congressional majority and again targeting Democratic U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath’s district for wholesale transformation. Lawmakers were called into special session after U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled in October that Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House maps violate federal law by diluting Black voting power. “Regardless, Congresswoman McBath refuses to let an extremist few in the state legislature determine when her time serving Georgians in Congress is done.” Jones wrote in his order that Georgia can’t fix its problems “by eliminating minority opportunity districts elsewhere.” Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee Chairwoman Shelly Echols, a Gainesville Republican, said on the Senate floor Friday that Republicans believe only existing majority-Black districts are protected by that language. Democratic U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams’ Atlanta-based district, now with a plurality of Black voters, would become majority Black, giving the state five majority-Black districts.

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Georgia House Republicans stick with leadership team for the next two years
1 month, 1 week ago

Georgia House Republicans stick with leadership team for the next two years

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia House Republicans decided Tuesday to keep their leadership team for the next two years. Inside the House chamber, Burns touted successful Republican efforts from last session including tax reductions, infrastructure investment, funding for pre-k programs, literacy initiatives, “cracking down on illegal immigration” and increasing penalties for certain crimes. “We will continue supporting Georgia’s growing families and providing …

New Democratic minority leader in Georgia Senate promises strong push for policy goals
1 month, 2 weeks ago

New Democratic minority leader in Georgia Senate promises strong push for policy goals

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Sen. Harold Jones II was selected Friday to lead Georgia’s Senate Democratic caucus, promising to be aggressive in pushing policy goals despite Republicans maintaining a substantial majority in the chamber. “We’re going to make sure we talk about working families in Georgia, those kitchen table issues that the Democratic Party is known for,” Jones said after he was …

2 Republican incumbents lose in Georgia House, but overall Democratic gains are limited
1 month, 2 weeks ago

2 Republican incumbents lose in Georgia House, but overall Democratic gains are limited

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Democrats toppled two Republican incumbents in the Georgia state House, but won’t narrow the Republican majority as much as they once hoped. GOP incumbents Mesha Mainor and Ken Vance lost to Democratic opponents, but Democratic efforts to unseat three more Republican incumbents in Atlanta’s northern suburbs were falling short. “From historic tax cuts and investments in education to …

The election in Georgia is tight. Meet 5 groups of voters who will shape the outcome
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The election in Georgia is tight. Meet 5 groups of voters who will shape the outcome

NPR  

The election in Georgia is tight. Meet 5 groups of voters who will shape the outcome toggle caption Matthew Pearson/WABE ATLANTA — Georgia had among the tightest margins of any swing state in 2020. Little Black girls, we didn’t see people in those positions that look like us.” Like other age groups, there is also a gender gap between Harris …

Republicans seeking Georgia congressional seat debate limits on abortion and immigration
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Republicans seeking Georgia congressional seat debate limits on abortion and immigration

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. ATLANTA — Brian Jack sought to make a Sunday debate among Republican candidates for an open Georgia congressional seat all about his close ties to former President Donald Trump, while the other contenders ignored Trump’s endorsement of Jack. Besides Jack, who was Trump’s political director during his administration and worked …

New Black congressional district in Louisiana bows to politics, not race, backers say
8 months ago

New Black congressional district in Louisiana bows to politics, not race, backers say

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Politics and race are both factors in a pending court challenge of Louisiana’s new congressional maps. The map creates a new mostly Black congressional district in Louisiana, at the expense of a white Republican incumbent, Rep. Garret Graves, who backed another Republican in the governor’s election last fall. Twelve self-described non-African American voters argued in a lawsuit …

Georgia House and Senate showcase contrasting priorities as 2024 session ends
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia House and Senate showcase contrasting priorities as 2024 session ends

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia’s 2024 legislative session again showcased contrasting Republican approaches to governing, while minority Democrats couldn’t leverage those differences to advance top policy priorities. Last year, that conflict burst into the open, with House and Senate leaders killing bills from the other chamber in a dispute that was set off by Jones’ push to loosen health care permitting requirements. …

Proposed Louisiana congressional map, with second majority-Black district, advances
11 months, 1 week ago

Proposed Louisiana congressional map, with second majority-Black district, advances

Associated Press  

— A proposed Louisiana congressional map with a second majority-Black district, which could deliver another U.S. House seat to Democrats, received bipartisan support and advanced through a legislative committee Tuesday. GOP state Rep. Glen Womack, who filed the legislation, said that race was not the “predominate factor” in deciding where the new boundaries would lie, but rather “politics drove this …

Federal judge accepts redrawn Georgia congressional and legislative districts that will favor GOP
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Federal judge accepts redrawn Georgia congressional and legislative districts that will favor GOP

Associated Press  

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. McBath said in a statement that she wouldn’t “allow an extremist few Republicans” to “decide when my …

Georgia lawmakers send redrawn congressional map keeping 9-5 Republican edge to judge for approval
1 year ago

Georgia lawmakers send redrawn congressional map keeping 9-5 Republican edge to judge for approval

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — For Georgia Democrats who didn’t get what they want out of a special legislative session to redraw voting districts, their retort Thursday was simple: “We’ll see you in court.” State lawmakers on Thursday completed a special session with the House voting 98-71 to give final passage to a congressional map that preserves a 9-5 edge for Republicans in …

New GOP-favored Georgia congressional map nears passage as the end looms for redistricting session
1 year ago

New GOP-favored Georgia congressional map nears passage as the end looms for redistricting session

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia special session to redraw congressional and legislative voting district maps is likely to end Thursday after a House committee on Wednesday advanced a Republican-favored congressional map that targets Democratic U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath’s current district. Lawmakers were called into special session after U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled in October that Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and …

Georgia lawmakers advance congressional map keeping 9-5 GOP edge; legislative maps get final passage
1 year ago

Georgia lawmakers advance congressional map keeping 9-5 GOP edge; legislative maps get final passage

Associated Press  

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 likely 9-5 GOP edge in the state’s delegation. Senators voted 32-21 to give final passage to a new state House map, despite Democrat concerns that the map harmed minority …

In GOP’s proposed Georgia congressional map, a key question is which voters are legally protected
1 year ago

In GOP’s proposed Georgia congressional map, a key question is which voters are legally protected

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A push by Georgia Republicans to maintain their congressional majority is likely to come down to a decades-old legal question that has never been settled by the U.S. Supreme Court — does federal law protect voting districts where a coalition of nonwhite voters hold sway? Lawmakers were called into special session after U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled …

Georgia Republicans advance House and Senate maps as congressional proposal waits in the wings
1 year ago

Georgia Republicans advance House and Senate maps as congressional proposal waits in the wings

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans on Thursday pushed forward new legislative maps that would preserve their majorities in the state House and Senate, while still not revealing how they want to redraw Georgia’s 14 congressional districts. Jones ordered Georgia lawmakers to draw additional Black majority districts, including one in Congress, two in the state Senate and five in the state House. …

Georgia Republicans move to cut losses as they propose majority-Black districts in special session
1 year ago

Georgia Republicans move to cut losses as they propose majority-Black districts in special session

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers opened a special session Wednesday as majority Republicans moved to minimize their losses while also trying to increase the number of Black-majority districts to comply with a federal court order. Georgia House Republicans on Tuesday released a map that would likely cost them only two seats from their current 102-78 majority while creating five more majority-Black …

Georgia Senate Republicans propose map with 2 new Black-majority districts
1 year ago

Georgia Senate Republicans propose map with 2 new Black-majority districts

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia Senate Republicans are proposing a new map that would create two Black-majority voting districts, but would probably retain Republicans’ 33-23 edge in the General Assembly’s upper chamber, in an effort to fix a map a judge said illegally dilutes Black votes. A special session on redrawing state legislative and congressional districts is scheduled to begin Wednesday after …

As Georgia looks to court-ordered redistricting, not only Republicans are in peril
1 year, 1 month ago

As Georgia looks to court-ordered redistricting, not only Republicans are in peril

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — It’s a pattern Southern states have repeated for decades: A federal court rules an electoral map illegally dilutes the power of Black voters and orders a new one. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones in October ordered Georgia to draw Black majorities in one additional congressional district, two additional state Senate districts, and five additional state House districts. Jones …

Georgia says it will appeal a judge’s redistricting decision but won’t seek to pause ruling for now
1 year, 1 month ago

Georgia says it will appeal a judge’s redistricting decision but won’t seek to pause ruling for now

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia says it will appeal a judge’s order to redraw some congressional and state legislative districts, but that it won’t fight in court to pause the order for now, meaning a special session later this month to draw new lines is likely to proceed. A federal judge ruled last week that some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and …

Judge says Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts are discriminatory and must be redrawn
1 year, 1 month ago

Judge says Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts are discriminatory and must be redrawn

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House districts were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional district. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in a 516-page order, also ordered the state to draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia’s 56-member state Senate and …

Black voting power gets boost in Alabama as new US House districts chosen by federal judges
1 year, 2 months ago

Black voting power gets boost in Alabama as new US House districts chosen by federal judges

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion of the electorate. The U.S. Supreme Court in June upheld the three-judge panel’s finding that Alabama’s prior map — with one majority-Black district out of seven in a state that is …

A Georgia trial arguing redistricting harmed Black voters could decide control of a US House seat
1 year, 3 months ago

A Georgia trial arguing redistricting harmed Black voters could decide control of a US House seat

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Democrats could gain a seat in the U.S. House and multiple seats in Georgia’s Legislature if a judge rules Republicans drew maps illegally weakening Black voters’ power. Court cases challenging district lines drawn after the 2020 Census could shape 2024 congressional elections in states beyond Alabama and Georgia, including Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas. “Despite these striking …

Alabama GOP accused of ripping off Black voters with new congressional map
1 year, 5 months ago

Alabama GOP accused of ripping off Black voters with new congressional map

Raw Story  

Republicans in Alabama have passed a new congressional map that is reportedly being criticized for defying U.S. Supreme Court precedent created to protect minority voters. "Civil rights groups have already vowed to challenge the new map in court, a month after the Supreme Court ruled that the state's previous district lines marginalized the state's sizable Black population in violation of …

After court ruling, Alabama GOP criticized for rejecting 2nd majority-Black congressional district
1 year, 5 months ago

After court ruling, Alabama GOP criticized for rejecting 2nd majority-Black congressional district

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Republicans on Tuesday advanced proposals to boost the number of Black voters in one of the state’s seven congressional districts, but critics said the plans flout a court order to create a second majority-Black district or something close to it. Republican-controlled legislative committees on Tuesday voted down proposals to create a second majority-Black district and advanced …

Judge refuses to toss discrimination lawsuits over Georgia voting districts
1 year, 5 months ago

Judge refuses to toss discrimination lawsuits over Georgia voting districts

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A judge has refused to dismiss lawsuits alleging Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts illegally discriminate against Black voters. The orders apply to three cases, one challenging the lines of Georgia’s 14 congressional districts and two challenging the lines of the 56 state Senate and 180 state House districts. In the state legislative cases, the challengers argue a map …

Alabama Republicans reject call for 2nd majority Black district, despite Supreme Court ruling
1 year, 5 months ago

Alabama Republicans reject call for 2nd majority Black district, despite Supreme Court ruling

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater voice in elections, rejected calls Monday to craft a second majority-Black district and proposed a map that could test what is required by the judges’ directive. In a state where more than one in four residents is Black, …

Suburbs delivered recent wins for Georgia Democrats. This year, they're up for grabs
2 years, 2 months ago

Suburbs delivered recent wins for Georgia Democrats. This year, they're up for grabs

NPR  

Suburbs delivered recent wins for Georgia Democrats. Enlarge this image toggle caption Sam Gringlas/WABE Sam Gringlas/WABE "Our community is more diverse and open-minded," says Samet, who is most worried about the recent rollback of abortion rights. Enlarge this image toggle caption Sam Gringlas/WABE Sam Gringlas/WABE Even before those recent developments, some Republican voters like Greg Minert were hesitant about Walker. …

3 Racially Discriminatory Maps And One Illegal Partisan Gerrymander Could Help GOP Win The House
2 years, 3 months ago

3 Racially Discriminatory Maps And One Illegal Partisan Gerrymander Could Help GOP Win The House

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Earlier this year, federal judges found that the congressional district maps adopted in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana failed to provide enough representation for their respective state’s Black populations. Voting Rights Violations In The South In Alabama, Republicans drew a new seven-district map that packed a large portion of the state’s Black population into one district favoring Democrats …

Louisiana session ends: No new map with a 2nd Black district
2 years, 6 months ago

Louisiana session ends: No new map with a 2nd Black district

Associated Press  

— Louisiana lawmakers ended a special session Saturday saying they were unable to agree on a new congressional map that includes a second majority Black district as ordered by a federal judge, prompting an angry blast from the governor. U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick on June 6 had struck down the state’s original U.S. House map approved earlier this year …

Florida adopts new US election map in likely boost to Republicans
2 years, 8 months ago

Florida adopts new US election map in likely boost to Republicans

Al Jazeera  

A new Florida congressional map proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis has been approved by the Republican-led state legislature, setting up a likely advantage for Florida Republicans in November’s US elections. Florida’s congressional map was redrawn as part of a nationwide redistricting process in the United States in which seats in the US House of Representatives are reapportioned to reflect population …

Mississippi reveals redistricting for state House and Senate
2 years, 8 months ago

Mississippi reveals redistricting for state House and Senate

Associated Press  

— Mississippi legislators on Sunday unveiled plans to redraw the state House and Senate districts to account for population changes revealed by the 2020 Census. Senate President Pro Tempore Dean Kirby of Pearl said Sunday that the Senate redistricting plan keeps the same number of Republican-leaning and Democratic-leaning districts as now. Historical voting patterns in Mississippi show districts with higher …

Georgia GOP lawmakers draw districts in Democratic counties
2 years, 10 months ago

Georgia GOP lawmakers draw districts in Democratic counties

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Republican state lawmakers in Georgia are reaching down to redraw election districts for county officials in Democratic controlled counties, a power grab possible in part because there’s no federal oversight of redistricting in Georgia for the first time in decades. “It’s a petite coup of our local government,” said Athens-Clarke County Commissioner Melissa Link, who could be drawn …

Alabama’s new congressional districts map blocked by judges
2 years, 10 months ago

Alabama’s new congressional districts map blocked by judges

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Federal judges on Monday blocked Alabama from using newly drawn congressional districts in upcoming elections, ruling that the state should have two districts — instead of one — in which Black voters are a sizeable portion of the electorate. “Black voters have less opportunity than other Alabamians to elect candidates of their choice to Congress,” the three-judge …

Plan to radically change US House districts in SC proposed
2 years, 11 months ago

Plan to radically change US House districts in SC proposed

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Just days before the South Carolina General Assembly appears ready to finish drawing new U.S. House districts, state Senators have been asked to consider an alternative that would make radical changes favorable to Democrats in the state’s seven congressional districts. He said his version is fair, equitable and creates districts that give more voters a chance to …

Kemp signs into law Georgia district maps, 3 lawsuits follow
2 years, 11 months ago

Kemp signs into law Georgia district maps, 3 lawsuits follow

Associated Press  

Brian Kemp on Thursday signed new maps for Georgia’s congressional delegation, state Senate and state House into law, resulting in three immediate lawsuits challenging the maps, even as candidates gear up to run under the new lines. The new districts are designed to increase the number of Republicans in Georgia’s 14-member congressional delegation from eight to nine, turning the suburban …

Panel gives state House, Senate district maps preliminary OK
3 years ago

Panel gives state House, Senate district maps preliminary OK

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission voted Thursday in favor of new preliminary district maps over sharp objections from the House’s Republican leader, as a large increase in the state’s minority population helped shape big changes. Nordenberg said it is an “intuitive democratic ideal that attracting about 50% of the popular vote also ought to mean winning about …

S. Carolina House overwhelmingly approves new district maps
3 years ago

S. Carolina House overwhelmingly approves new district maps

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina House overwhelmingly approved its new districts Thursday that appear to maintain Republican dominance in the chamber and protect many, but not all, incumbents. The new district maps drawn by the General Assembly do face one less hurdle than redistricting efforts over the past several decades as the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 threw out …

Political fight in Georgia suburbs as McBath jumps districts
3 years, 1 month ago

Political fight in Georgia suburbs as McBath jumps districts

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath isn’t going away, even as Republicans try to draw district lines to pry back a slice of the American suburbs from congressional Democrats. McBath, a Democrat who in 2018 wrested away Newt Gingrich’s old suburban Atlanta U.S. House district from the GOP, is a torchbearer for the Democratic insurgency into once-prime Republican territory. …

McBath jumps districts as GOP-friendly Georgia map passes
3 years, 1 month ago

McBath jumps districts as GOP-friendly Georgia map passes

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The Republican majority in Georgia’s congressional delegation is likely to grow after state lawmakers on Monday gave final passage to a redistricting plan that will give the GOP a strong advantage in nine of the state’s 14 districts. But U.S. Rep Lucy McBath, a Democrat targeted by the map, announced Monday that she’s jumping to a more Democratic-friendly …

Georgia Senate GOP passes map to retain Republican majority
3 years, 1 month ago

Georgia Senate GOP passes map to retain Republican majority

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia Senate Republicans pushed through a map Tuesday on a 34-21 party line vote designed to maintain their strong majority in the chamber, despite Democratic cries that the plan doesn’t reflect Georgia’s nearly 50-50 partisan split and denies opportunities to nonwhite voters. Democrats say that’s too many, considering President Joe Biden carried Georgia with a narrow majority last …

Texas GOP tries to protect US House seats under new maps
3 years, 2 months ago

Texas GOP tries to protect US House seats under new maps

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Facing up to Texas’ booming suburbs turning bluer, Republicans on Monday proposed new U.S. House maps that would fortify their slipping grip and shrink the number of seats where the majority of voters are Hispanic — even as they fuel the state’s blistering growth. But a new congressional district in the state’s liberal capital was a “Democratic …

Analysis: Census will reshape political maps in Mississippi
3 years, 7 months ago

Analysis: Census will reshape political maps in Mississippi

Associated Press  

— States are set to receive detailed Census information in September, and Mississippi legislators will use those numbers in a tough political battle — deciding how to redraw the four U.S. House districts and the 174 state legislative districts. But people drawing Mississippi’s new congressional boundaries should not be able to obliterate the majority-Black congressional district because Section 2 of …

Georgia Republicans enact sweeping bill to restrict voting
3 years, 8 months ago

Georgia Republicans enact sweeping bill to restrict voting

Al Jazeera  

Bill targets surge in absentee voting by Democrats in the state Joe Biden won in the 2020 presidential election. A bill passed and signed by the governor of Georgia Thursday will revise the US state’s election laws to restrict future absentee voting and give the Republican legislature greater control over the administration of elections. President Joe Biden, at a news …

Georgia GOP leaders who stood up to Trump back voting bills
3 years, 9 months ago

Georgia GOP leaders who stood up to Trump back voting bills

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won wide praise last fall for firmly rejecting then-President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. Both men say they support Georgia Republicans’ efforts to enact an ID requirement for absentee voting that would do away with the state’s signature matching system, which Trump heavily attacked. A recorded …

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