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• La mossa di Brian Kemp rende la Georgia l'ultimo stato del sud a intraprendere la ridefinizione delle mappe dopo lo smantellamento del Voting Rights Act. • Il governatore repubblicano della Georgia ha convocato una sessione speciale per il prossimo mese per ridisegnare le mappe elettorali, diventando l'ultimo stato del sud a dare avvio a un nuovo processo di mappatura a seguito della decisione della Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti di smantellare il Voting Rights Act. • Brian Kemp ha annunciato mercoledì la sessione speciale, che inizierà il 17 giugno. L'obiettivo sarà quello di "attuare, revisionare, revocare o emendare" i confini dei distretti per la legislatura statale e per i distretti congressuali, alla luce della decisione della Corte Suprema in Louisiana v Callais. Continua a leggere...

Tuttavia, Tate Reeves ha dichiarato di prevedere la ridisegnazione dei quattro distretti congressuali dello stato prima delle elezioni del 2027 Mercoledì mattina, il governatore del Mississippi, Tate Reeves, ha annunciato la cancellazione di una sessione legislativa speciale prevista per la prossima settimana per ridisegnare i distretti della Corte Suprema statale. Tuttavia, Reeves, repubblicano, ha sottolineato che prevede comunque che lo stato ridisegni i suoi quattro distretti congressuali in un futuro prossimo. Reeves, in un'apparizione su SuperTalk radio, una rete radiofonica conservatrice, ha inoltre affermato che sarebbe difficile per lo stato ridisegnare i distretti congressuali a favore dei Repubblicani in tempo per le imminenti elezioni di metà mandato di novembre. Fare ciò potrebbe inoltre danneggiare i Repubblicani nelle gare congressuali. Continua a leggere...

Legislature has eliminated the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional districtSign up for the Breaking News US email Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district as GOP lawmakers scramble to improve their fortunes ahead of the November midterms.The new map splits Shelby County, the home of Memphis, a majority-Black city that played a critical role in the civil rights movement, into three separate Republican-leaning districts. Continue reading...

Move comes days after supreme court ruling weakened Voting Rights Act protections against racial gerrymanderingUS politics live – latest updatesTennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature passed redistricting maps on Thursday, eliminating the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district a week after the US supreme court effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.The move cracks Tennessee’s ninth congressional district, which covers Memphis, into three pieces, each of which contains almost exactly a third of the city’s Black voters. The new maps mean that all nine of Tennessee’s congressional districts are Republican-leaning. Continue reading...

• Alabama's state Legislature adjourned a special session on Monday after demonstrators entered the State House in Montgomery to protest Republican plans to adopt a gerrymandered congressional map that dilutes Black voter power. • Following the Supreme Court's recent ruling striking down the last remaining major provision of the Voting Rights Act, Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an emergency motion to lift an existing injunction barring map changes before 2030. • The protest reflects broader national tensions over voting rights and congressional redistricting following the Court's decision to gut key Voting Rights Act protections.

Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the decision, saying the court has hastened it ruling only twice before in 25 yearsThe US supreme court went out of its way on Monday to help Louisiana Republicans redraw their congressional maps before this year’s midterm elections by allowing a recent ruling that gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act to take effect ahead of schedule.The procedural move comes less than a week after the court’s landmark decision striking down Louisiana’s congressional map and gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Usually, the court waits 32 days to formally issue its judgment to the lower court. Last week, Louisiana asked the court to speed up that process, citing the urgency with which it needed to redraw its congressional maps. On Monday, the court agreed to do so. Continue reading...

• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed new congressional maps set to strip Democrats of additional House seats ahead of 2026 midterms. • In contrast, Virginia voters narrowly approved a Democratic-backed redistricting plan threatening Republican incumbents. • The coast-to-coast battles reflect volatile gerrymandering disputes shaping midterm battlegrounds.

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