redistricting
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Mississippi Must Redraw District Voting Lines, Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court on Friday ordered Mississippi officials to redraw district lines for a district in the Mississippi Delta,…
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NC NAACP Calls for Stop to Redistricting Decisions
Members of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP called Tuesday for local lawmakers to redraw redistricting maps, in an…
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Republican Lawmaker Says Inmates Key to Defeating Corrine Brown
TALLAHASSEE (Politico) — In a private gathering during last month’s Republican Party of Florida quarterly meeting, state Rep. Janet Adkins…
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Judges Assigned to Rule on Makeup of Corrine Brown’s Congressional District
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After the Florida Republican-dominated state legislature failed to redraw Rep. Corrine…
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Moral Monday Leader Inspires Protests, Arrests and Action
Martha Waggoner, ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. William Barber walks gingerly with a cane, in a…
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Court Ruling Spurs Backers’ Hopes for Redistricting Changes
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Groups hoping to squeeze partisan politics out of how states shape congressional districts…
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Supreme Court Upholds Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission
Samantha Lachman, HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (Huffington Post) — The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday that a voter-approved independent…
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Federal Judges Again Strike Down Virginia Redistricting Plan
Larry O’Dell and Alan Suderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal court on Friday concluded for the…
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Virginia’s Black-Majority District Map Rejected
LARRY O’DELL, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia legislators packed too many black voters into one congressional district in…
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Court to Weigh Use of Race in Drawing Political Lines
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Democrat Quinton Ross has represented a pretty safe district in the Alabama state Senate since…
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