<p class="text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD" data-testid="paragraph-0">A federal judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, upheld Republicans&#8217; redrawn congressional maps in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/georgia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia</a>, on Thursday.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-0">U.S. District Judge Steve Jones had ordered new congressional maps to be drawn back in October, following the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-blocks-alabama-congressional-map-as-discriminatory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a> on a case concerning black voters and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The judge found the new maps to be in compliance.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-0">&#8220;The court finds that the general assembly fully complied with this court&#8217;s order requiring the creation of Black-majority districts in the regions of the state where vote dilution was found,&#8221; Jones wrote in his order.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-0">The decision makes it likely that the GOP will maintain their 9-5 advantage with the state&#8217;s 14 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-upholds-georgias-congressional-map-win-republicans-2023-12-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-5">Jones&#8217; ruling in October said that numerous state and Congressional districts created in 2021 violated the Voting Rights Act and discriminated against black voters, GPB News <a href="https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/11/02/georgia-will-appeal-redistricting-ruling-wont-ask-for-pause-special-session" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, adding that the GOP-controlled General Assembly was then tasked with creating new maps that included an additional majority-black Congressional district, two additional majority-black state Senate districts, and five new majority-black districts in the state House.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-5">The state filed an appeal, but also moved forward with a special session to address the issues with the Congressional maps.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-5">The issue was first stirred up when the U.S. Supreme Court in June <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-blocks-alabama-congressional-map-as-discriminatory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a surprising 5-4 ruling that found an Alabama Congressional map as discriminatory.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-5">Chief Justice John Roberts was <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-blocks-gop-drawn-alabama-voting-map-challenged-by-black-voters-33f10297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> by fellow conservative Brett Kavanaugh and the court’s three liberal justices in the majority, requiring the Alabama state legislature to redraw a Congressional map to add an additional black-majority district in accordance with the Voting Rights Act, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-blocks-alabama-congressional-map-as-discriminatory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported at the time. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett dissented.</p>
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<p data-testid="paragraph-5">Those arguing that the map was discriminatory said the map was racially gerrymandered, packing black voters into the 7th congressional district to reduce the impact of their votes in other districts.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-5">“A district is not equally open, in other words, when minority voters face – unlike their majority peers – bloc voting along racial lines, arising against the backdrop of substantial racial discrimination within the State, that renders a minority vote unequal to a vote by a nonminority voter,&#8221; Roberts wrote.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-5">Thomas, who dissented, argued that the Voting Rights Act should not apply to redistricting, “At the outset, I would resolve these cases in a way that would not require the Federal Judiciary to decide the correct racial apportionment of Alabama’s congressional seats,&#8221; he wrote.</p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-5"><em>Nathan Gay contributed to this report.</em></p>
<p data-testid="paragraph-5"><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-blocks-alabama-congressional-map-as-discriminatory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court Blocks Alabama Congressional Map As Discriminatory</a></strong></p>

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