ATLANTA — A special legislative session begins Wednesday in Georgia to redraw the state's political maps after a federal judge ruled that the current district lines illegally dilute the power of Black ...

Republicans who control the Georgia legislature on Thursday finalized a new congressional map that safeguards their party’s dominance in state politics and dashes, for the time being, Democrats’ hopes ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Georgia Republicans wasted no time in calling on state lawmakers to redraw the Peach State’s congressional maps after Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ...

When a judge ordered more majority-Black districts in Georgia, Republican legislators came up with a plan to entrench their political power by shuffling voters around and dividing them by race. They ...

Decision regarding congressional and state legislative maps could result in an additional Democratic seat in Congress Georgia Republicans must redraw congressional and state legislative maps to give ...

Georgia Senate Republicans are proposing a new map that would create two Black-majority voting districts, but would probably retain Republicans’ 33-23 edge in the General Assembly’s upper chamber, in ...

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