signalmankenneth
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We got to end this blatant gerrymandering by the GOP in these states?!! When you gerrymander, you get politicians like Jordan, Gaetz, Greene, and Boebert to name a few?!! The MAGA/GOP hold on the house will end after the 2024 elections?!!
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[FONT=cnn_sans_display]A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps, ruling that state legislators improperly diluted the political power of Black voters in establishing those boundaries following the 2020 census.
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[FONT=cnn_sans_display]The ruling by US District Judge Steve Jones could result in Democrats securing an additional seat in the US House from Georgia. Republicans currently hold nine slots in the state’s 14-member congressional delegation.
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[FONT=cnn_sans_display]The Peach State litigation is among several legal and political fights under way in nearly a dozen states that could determine whether the GOP retains its narrow majority in the US House after next year’s election.[/FONT]
[FONT=cnn_sans_display]In his ruling, Jones said Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature had violated the Voting Rights Act, the nation’s landmark civil rights law, in establishing district lines.
[/FONT][FONT=cnn_sans_display]“The Court commends Georgia for the great strides that it has made to increase the political opportunities of Black voters in the 58 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” Jones wrote. “Despite these great gains, the Court determines that in certain areas of the State, the political process is not equally open to Black voters.”[/FONT][FONT=cnn_sans_display]
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/georgia-legislative-maps-order/index.html
[FONT=cnn_sans_display]CNN — [/FONT]
[FONT=cnn_sans_display]A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps, ruling that state legislators improperly diluted the political power of Black voters in establishing those boundaries following the 2020 census.
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[FONT=cnn_sans_display]The ruling by US District Judge Steve Jones could result in Democrats securing an additional seat in the US House from Georgia. Republicans currently hold nine slots in the state’s 14-member congressional delegation.
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[FONT=cnn_sans_display]The Peach State litigation is among several legal and political fights under way in nearly a dozen states that could determine whether the GOP retains its narrow majority in the US House after next year’s election.[/FONT]
[FONT=cnn_sans_display]In his ruling, Jones said Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature had violated the Voting Rights Act, the nation’s landmark civil rights law, in establishing district lines.
[/FONT][FONT=cnn_sans_display]“The Court commends Georgia for the great strides that it has made to increase the political opportunities of Black voters in the 58 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” Jones wrote. “Despite these great gains, the Court determines that in certain areas of the State, the political process is not equally open to Black voters.”[/FONT][FONT=cnn_sans_display]
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/georgia-legislative-maps-order/index.html
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