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Republican leadership in both the House and Senate have introduced new maps they say will bring Georgia in compliance with federal law.

Apparently, it is possible for Republican lawmakers to draw majority-Black districts, since Georgia Senate Republicans unveiled a new map proposal on Monday with two of them.

Georgia lawmakers will open a special session Wednesday as majority Republicans move to minimize their losses while also trying to increase the number of Black-majority districts to comply with a federal court order. It's one in a series of redistricting sessions across the South after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1964 Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for Black voters to win changes from courts. Georgia House Republicans on Tuesday released a map that would likely cost them only two seats from their current 102-78 majority while creating five more majority-Black districts that D...

The decision by 8th Circuit Court Judge David Stras, a Trump appointee, seizes on a suggestion by Justice Clarence Thomas that few took seriously.

Georgia lawmakers will open a special session Wednesday as majority Republicans move to minimize their losses while also trying to increase the number of Black-majority districts to comply with a federal court order.