City Council gets amendments to Mayor’s proposed redistricting map | #citycouncil
BALTIMORE — Redrawing the lines, it’s a proposal from Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott. Now, members of the City Council are getting a new look at amendments to the redrawn district boundaries. City Council members received an amended map of Mayor Brandon Scott’s redistricting proposal that was introduced on September 18. The proposed map is based […]
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DeSantis’ redistricting map in Florida is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says | #elections | #alabama
A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick a representative of their choice, a state judge ruled Saturday.Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh sent the […]
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Alabama GOP defies Supreme Court order for black districts with new congressional map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Alabama seems to have defied an order from the Supreme Court by passing a redistricting map that only included one majority black district instead of two on Friday. The Supreme Court agreed with a lower-level federal court in its order for the state to include two districts that had largely black populations among its voting-aged […]
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