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A federal judge rejected a Republican attempt to eliminate a Black-majority local judicial district in Mississippi, ruling that it was too close to the November election to make the change.
A federal court will decide at an upcoming hearing whether Mississippi can move forward for now with a gerrymandered GOP map for its 2027 elections without waiting for input from a district court or the legislature.
State voting chiefs and voting rights advocates noted that the ruling is a crucial victory reaffirming that states, not the president, hold the power to set election rules.
The right also used the decision to bolster an ongoing push for President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act — though the measure does not address the issue at stake in the case.
The U.S. Supreme Court blessed grace periods for ballots mailed by Election Day Thursday, preserving pro-voter laws in 14 states.
A federal judge upheld DeSoto County, Mississippi’s local election map, which Black voters argued was drawn to suppress their political power.
The CBC’s Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Ala.) has pulled support of the SCORE Act, which he helped draft, due to the GOP’s redistricting war impacts on his state.
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) said Republicans are planning to redraw the state’s congressional map and dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district by 2027.
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
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