Court says Mississippi can wait for 2025 to draw new legislative maps
By Rob Moore
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Updated: July 19, 2024 6:18 PM CT
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Proposed Illustrative Senate District 2 includes a new majority-Black district expanding from Tunica County through Walls and Horn Lake in DeSoto County. (Courtesy U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Mississippi)
The U. S. District Court of the Southern District of Mississippi ruled on Tuesday, July 2, that some of the districts drawn in 2022 violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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