{"id":2288873,"date":"2024-07-03T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mississippi-judges-order-legislative-maps-to-be-redrawn-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:50:44","slug":"mississippi-judges-order-legislative-maps-to-be-redrawn-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mississippi-judges-order-legislative-maps-to-be-redrawn-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi judges order legislative maps to be redrawn &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmississippi-judges-order-legislative-maps-to-be-redrawn-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2288873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200carticle discusses a federal court order requiring Mississippi to redraw parts of its legislative map that discriminates against black voters. The\u2063 court mandated the creation of two new black-majority Senate \u200ddistricts and \u200bone \u200bnew\u2062 black-majority House \u2062district. The ruling was\u200c in response to\u2063 a lawsuit\u2062 filed by the \u200bMississippi State \u200dConference of the NAACP and \u2062voters, alleging that \u2063the current \u200dmap does not accurately represent the state&#8217;s demographics. The decision highlights the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-city-sued-for-racial-discrimination-and-quota-system\/\" title=\"City in North Carolina sued for racial discrimination and implementing a quota system.\">ensuring equal representation<\/a> for Black Mississippians in state government.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i 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class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/abaker\/\">Audrey Baker<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-03T18:06:59-04:00\">July 3, 2024 6:06 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video\">\n<div id=\"Brid_22488\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:1280;height:720;\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A federal court has ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mississippi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mississippi<\/a> to redraw parts of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&#038;rls=en&#038;q=washington+examiner+redistricting&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>legislative map<\/a> on the grounds that the current Republican-drawn one discriminates against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/african-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>black<\/a> voters.<\/p>\n<p>In a 119-page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/224-2024-07-02-Findings-of-fact-and-conclusions-of-law.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>decision<\/a> released Tuesday, a three-judge panel ordered the state to redraw two new black-majority Senate districts and one new black-majority House district.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate districts would be drawn in and around DeSoto County in the northwest of the state and the city of Hattiesburg in the south, while the House district would be in Chickasaw and Monroe counties in the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court rightly held that the Mississippi Legislature used the redistricting process to dilute the power of Black voters,\u201d Jarvis Dortch, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/press-releases\/federal-court-orders-mississippis-state-legislative-maps-to-be-redrawn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cThose legislative districts denied Black Mississippians an equal voice in state government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in 2022 by the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP and voters from across the state, alleged that the state\u2019s legislative map did not reflect the current makeup of Mississippi\u2019s population, which is about 38% black.<\/p>\n<p>While the state\u2019s black population increased by nearly 8,000 people since the 2010 census, the state\u2019s non-Hispanic white population decreased by more than 83,000, according to the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-republicans-approve-new-congressional-map-that-they-hope-will-blunt-democratic-gains\/\" title=\"Texas Republicans Approve New Congressional Map That They Hope Will Blunt Democratic Gains\">black-majority district<\/a> is a virtual prerequisite for black candidates\u2019 success in Mississippi politics, it is relevant that the Mississippi Legislature left the number of majority-black districts unchanged following the recent Census, despite substantial increases in the black population and corresponding losses in the white population,\u201d the judges wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes more than two years after Mississippi lawmakers voted to approve the new redistricting plan following the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ufc-268-usman-retains-title-by-unanimous-decision-over-covington\/\" title=\"UFC 268: Usman Retains Title By Unanimous Decision Over Covington\">judges\u2019 decision<\/a> is not appealed and is followed through, legislators will have to hold special elections in the three redrawn districts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Jonson, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi secretary of state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wapt.com\/article\/federal-court-orders-mississippi-to-redraw-legislative-maps\/61501641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> the office was in the process of reviewing the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will discuss with counsel soon and chart a path forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var 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The court has instructed the state to create two new black-majority Senate districts and one new black-majority House district. This decision comes after a lawsuit filed by the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP and voters, alleging that the current map does not accurately represent the state&#8217;s population, which is about 38% black. If the ruling is not appealed, special elections will need to be held in the newly redrawn districts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3192,"featured_media":2288874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mississippi-redistricting-black-discrimination.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7580,33851,6632],"class_list":["post-2288873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-judges","tag-legislative-maps","tag-mississippi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mississippi-redistricting-black-discrimination.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}