A federal judge has struck down Georgia’s political district maps and ordered state lawmakers to redraw them by Dec. 8, in a win for voting rights activists who argued that the state’s maps dilute the ...

ATLANTA — A federal judge ruled on Thursday that Georgia’s redrawn congressional maps violate a section of the Voting Rights Act. The Georgia General Assembly approved the maps back in 2021 and were ...

Georgia Republican legislators passed a new congressional map Thursday that protects their party’s dominance in the U.S. House and might violate a federal judge’s order requiring an additional ...

Republican lawmakers in Georgia pushed forward Tuesday with a congressional map proposal that keeps a 9-5 Republican majority for House seats, which Democrats claim violates a federal court order. The ...

Macon voters will elect state representatives in newly drawn House districts in 2024. State legislators have been at the capitol for the last week for a chaotic and contentious special session of the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In late October, a federal court ruled that Georgia’s electoral maps violated the ...

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 ...

The Georgia General Assembly gave final approval to new maps redrawing its own district lines Tuesday after a federal judge ordered the creation of seven more majority-Black districts, sending the ...

Voters wait in line to cast their ballot early at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, Ga., on Oct. 12, 2020. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP, File) ATLANTA (CN) — A federal appeals court ...

ATLANTA - Brushing aside concerns that they may be breaking a law that protects coalitions of nonwhite voters, Georgia state senators on Tuesday passed a new congressional map that would maintain a ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps, ruling that state legislators improperly diluted the political power of Black voters in establishing ...

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, ...