A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia lawmakers to draw a new congressional map for the 2024 election, ruling that the current Republican-backed plan illegally diluted Black votes in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
U.S. District Steve Jones gave legislators until Dec. 8 to enact a new map that includes an additional district with a Black majority or near-majority, which would likely flip a Republican seat to Democrats.
Republicans won nine of the state's 14 U.S. House of Representative districts in the 2022 elections, which took place under the map that Jones invalidated.across the U.S. that could help determine which party takes control of the House in next year's congressional elections. Democrats need to add only five seats nationally to wrest back the House majority they lost in 2022.Jones also ordered lawmakers to redraw some of the state's legislative districts as well.
In a 516-page ruling, the judge noted that over the past decade, the state's population growth was entirely attributable to its minority residents. Nevertheless, he said, the state's congressional and legislative maps did not add more majority-Black districts. Despite "great strides" in providing Black voters more opportunities over the decades, Jones wrote, "the political process is not equally open to Black voters."Pakistan on Thursday gave a last warning to all immigrants in the country illegally, including hundreds of thousands of Afghan nationals, to leave voluntarily before a Nov. 1 deadline, the country's caretaker interior minister said on Thursday.
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