US EditionKemp says no redistricting for 2026 midterms, but expects electoral changes to maps for 2028 election
- On Friday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced the state will not cancel its May 19 primary or rush to implement new political maps for the 2026 midterms, citing that early voting has already begun.
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais weakened a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, prompting some Georgia Republicans to demand a special legislative session to redraw district lines.
- Kemp told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the ruling 'restores fairness to our redistricting process,' yet maintained it is too late to reconfigure maps with Georgians already casting ballots less than three weeks before the primary.
- Despite Kemp's announcement, lawmakers from both parties expect the governor to summon them back to Atlanta before January, as conservatives aim to lock in new maps while he remains in office.
- Any future redistricting changes will target the 2028 election cycle rather than the current midterms, leaving existing congressional and legislative boundaries in place until that time.
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http://www.wfxg.comKemp rejects calls to redraw this year’s political maps, early voting surge and other news
Independence Day is still a couple months away, but there were plenty of fireworks in Georgia this week. Some of them went off in a Georgia Public Broadcasting studio, where the Atlanta Press Club hosted debates this week ahead of…
The Supreme Court has this week given a tremendous shock to the U.S. electoral system: states will no longer be able to consider the race of voters as an element for designing electoral maps. The decision, which ends with protections for racial minorities established in the 1960s and which had managed to mitigate their lack of political representation, opens a new front in the war for the design of electoral districts: Republicans will be able t…
Swing State GOP Governor Won't Redraw Congressional Maps to Help Republicans in Time for 2026 Midterms
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday that struck down racially drawn congressional districts, Republican legislatures in some states are acting quickly to come up with new […] The post Swing State GOP Governor Won't Redraw Congressional Maps to Help Republicans in Time for 2026 Midterms appeared first on The Western Journal.
Georgia won’t redraw congressional map ahead of midterms, Kemp says
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, said Friday his state will not redraw its congressional lines ahead of the midterms, rejecting calls to reschedule the state’s upcoming primary. The outgoing Republican governor said that he will not cancel Georgia’s May 19 primary or rush to redraw congressional maps, following a Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act and triggered a Republican-led push to redraw districts across the South.…
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