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Plaintiffs in a voting-rights lawsuit that succeeded in Pulaski County Circuit Court only to have a judge's injunction stayed by the state Supreme Court just over a week later were handed another setback Friday when the state's high court denied their request for an expedited availability of the trial's transcript.
After six days of testimony from judges, elected officials, voters, a redistricting expert and competing elections experts, the decision of whether to significantly change how Arkansas elects judges to its highest courts rests with U.S. District Judge James M. Moody.
After six days of testimony from judges, elected officials, voters, a redistricting expert and competing elections experts, the decision of whether to significantly change how Arkansas elects judges to its highest courts rests with U.S. District Judge James M. Moody.
After six days of testimony from judges, elected officials, voters, a redistricting expert and competing elections experts, the decision of whether to significantly change how Arkansas elects judges to its highest courts rests with U.S. District Judge James M. Moody.
Testimony continued Wednesday in federal court about the impacts of judicial elections on Black voters in a judicial districting lawsuit brought by a coalition of ministers, community activists and voters against the state's Board of Apportionment members.