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Georgia Republicans on Friday proposed to redraw the state's congressional districts to create a new court-ordered Black majority district, maintaining the current 9-5 Republican congressional majority and again targeting Democratic U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath's district for wholesale transformation. It's unlikely any of the proposed districts would produce competitive races between Republicans and Democrats. If it passes, the map could set up a court fight over whether the federal Voting Rights Act protects McBath's current district from being wiped out.

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

The redrawn legislative maps floated by Georgia Republican leaders have quickly found pushback from Democrats and voting rights advocates as a special redistricting session – the second in two years

The special session started with a bang Wednesday as members of the House and Senate reviewed the new legislative maps proposed by Republicans.

Georgia Republicans are pushing forward new legislative maps that would preserve their majorities in the state House and Senate