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The decision by U.S. District Judge Steve Jones to approve the new Republican-drawn maps comes over the objections of the civil rights and religious groups who first sued over Georgia’s maps.

A federal judge is considering whether to redraw Georgia’s congressional and legislative districts yet again.

With at least three 2024 elections around the corner, the window of opportunity to introduce new maps is rapidly closing.

Challengers are telling a federal judge that Georgia Republican state lawmakers' new voting districts don't cure illegal vote dilution and should be rejected. But the state of Georgia told the judge Wednesday that new congressional and state legislative maps comply with a court order to draw new Black-majority districts, even if the plaintiffs don't like Republicans' partisan choices.

ATLANTA — U.S. District Judge Steve Jones on Wednesday narrowed the opportunity to challenge the state’s newly drawn political districts.

Georgia’s new congressional and legislative maps got their day in court Wednesday in front of federal Judge Steve Jones, who threw out the state’s 2021 attempt at drawing new electoral

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Challengers are telling a federal judge that Georgia Republican state lawmakers new voting districts dont cure illegal vote dilution and should be rejected

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The people who successfully sued to overturn Georgia’s congressional and state legislative districts told a federal judge on Wednesday that new plans Republican state lawmakers claim will cure illegal vote dilution should be rejected. The plaintiffs argued before U.S. District Judge Steve Jones in an hourslong hearing in Atlanta that the new maps don't increase opportunities for Black voters to elect their chosen candidates. “The state of Georgia is playing games,” la...