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Federal appeals court orders Legislature to redraw ‘gerrymandered’ 102-mile Senate district by April 3
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 17, 2019 12:18pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| Author | Larrison Campbell |
| News Date | Saturday, March 16, 2019 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A federal appeals court has given state lawmakers four weeks to redraw a state Senate district after a lower court determined the district violates the federal Voting Rights Act.
Gov. Phil Bryant and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann had asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to stay last month’s decision by U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves until the Fifth Circuit heard their appeal. The appeals court instead ordered the Mississippi Legislature to redraw the map by April 3.
But the Fifth Circuit denied the request for a stay, writing that a majority of the three-judge panel had “concluded that there is not a strong likelihood that Defendants will succeed in overturning the liability finding on appeal.”
In February, Reeves had determined that Senate District 22 as drawn diluted the power of the black vote in that area of the state, writing that the district “does not afford the plaintiffs ‘an equal opportunity to participate in the political processes and to elect candidates of their choice.'” The Fifth Circuit also extended the filing deadline for candidates vying for a senate seat in 2019 in those districts to April 12. |
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