January 03, 2024
A Georgia federal judge has upheld the state's recently redrawn political districts, finding that state lawmakers "fully complied" with his order to create more districts with a majority of Black voters.
December 20, 2023
Organizations challenging recently redrawn political districts in Georgia told a federal judge Wednesday that the new maps, created after the judge held that earlier versions illegally diluted Black citizens' voting power, still deny Black voters the chance to elect their preferred candidates.
October 26, 2023
Georgia must redraw its legislative maps by Dec. 8 to include additional majority-Black districts, a federal judge ruled Thursday, determining the Peach State's latest redistricting plans violate the Voting Rights Act.
October 05, 2023
A Georgia federal judge overseeing multiple lawsuits alleging the state's redrawn voting maps are racially gerrymandered has asked the federal government if it wants to join the case after Peach State officials questioned the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.
September 05, 2023
Challengers to Georgia's latest legislative maps told a federal judge Tuesday that Black voters in the Peach State are unfairly shut out from election power because the maps were racially gerrymandered, kicking off what's expected to be a two-week bench trial in Atlanta.
August 29, 2023
The state of Georgia is opposing voting rights groups' request for a federal judge to consider a proposed Interstate 14 expansion that they say would link communities sharing representation under one of the legislative maps proposed in a trio of vote dilution suits set for trial this September.
August 24, 2023
With a trial looming for a trio of vote dilution suits over Georgia's legislative maps, a federal judge said he's refusing to take into account several years of Census Bureau voter turnout data that Black voters argued don't match up with state records and have been found to overestimate Black voter turnout.
July 18, 2023
A trio of vote dilution cases challenging Georgia's latest legislative maps will be tried in September after a federal judge in Atlanta rejected state election officials' attempt to end the litigation.
June 23, 2023
Parties involved in three consolidated cases challenging Georgia's latest legislative maps have responded to a Georgia federal judge's request for briefing on how the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in a similar Alabama case might affect the cases.
June 09, 2023
Georgia attorneys representing voters in suits over newly drawn legislative maps celebrated after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in an Alabama case, telling Law360 they believe the ruling eases the burden on voters to prove the government had racially motivated reasons for redrawing the lines.