The judge said Georgia’s district lines must be redrawn to ensure adequate representation of Black voters in Congress and the General Assembly.
By Mark Niesse and Maya T. Prabhu, The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionState Sen. John Kennedy, R-Macon, presents the newly drawn congressional maps in the Senate Chambers during a special session at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, Nov. 19, 2021. A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of Georgia's congressional, state Senate and state House districts were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner.
“Georgia has made great strides since 1965 towards equality in voting,” Jones wrote in his 516-page order. “However, the evidence before this court shows that Georgia has not reached the point where the political process has Georgia Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikema Williams called Thursday’s ruling a “resounding victory” for democracy.
“It is unfortunate that, decades after the Civil Rights Movement, we still need to defend and promote the right for the African-American community to vote make no mistake that we will continue to fight for these causes, not only because the facts and the law are on our side, but because democracy is our country’s most important tenant and is always worth fighting for,” Jackson said.
The new district included heavily Republican and white areas to the north, resulting in Republican Rich McCormick winning the seat in last year’s election with 62% of the vote. McBath ran and won in the neighboring 7th District, ousting her Democratic colleague in the U.S. House, Carolyn Bourdeaux.to run for solid-Republican seats anticipating this decision.
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