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A federal complaint filed last March claiming that legislative redistricting that split Pulaski County's Black population into three separate congressional districts violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was partially dismissed Monday by a three-judge panel that included two federal judges from the Eastern District of Arkansas and one judge from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A federal complaint filed last March over Congressional redistricting in Pulaski County was partially dismissed on Monday by a three-judge panel.
President Donald Trump inherited more than 120 vacancies on the lower federal courts and one Supreme Court vacancy when he took office on January 20, 2017. Trump made filling the Supreme Court vacancy one of his first priorities, and Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate in time to join the Court for the end of its 2016–2017 term. Now the President’s focus has turned to the appellate and district court vacancies. The Senate confirmed Trump’s first appeals court nominee, Amul Thapar, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on May 25.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected a request to temporarily block part of Nebraska’s ballot initiative petition process sought by a group trying to legalize medical marijuana