The 11th Circuit’s Aug. 25 decision did not declare Georgia’s maps lawful. It sent the case back after the Supreme Court changed the Voting Rights Act test: challengers must support a strong inference of intentional racial discrimination and separate racial effects from partisan choices.
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Appeals court set aside Georgia’s voting-map ruling and ordered a new review under stricter racial-discrimination rules.
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