New gop-favored georgia congressional map nears passage as the end looms for redistricting session
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A Georgia special session to redraw congressional and legislative voting district maps is likely to end Thursday after a House committee on Wednesday advanced a Republican-favored
congressional map that targets Democratic U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath’s current district. However, the wrangling is unlikely to end there, with those who brought the challenges that overturned the
current maps likely to argue in court that Georgia’s Republican-controlled General Assembly has violated the federal court order that directed them to produce new maps. The House
Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee, with little debate, voted 9-4 on Wednesday to send the congressional map to the full House for a vote. The plan, which passed the state Senate
33-22 on Tuesday, seeks a wholesale reconfiguration of a suburban Atlanta district now represented by McBath. READ THIS STORY FOR FREE To continue reading, sign up for our newsletters and
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