Court says Mississippi can wait for 2025 to draw new legislative maps
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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)
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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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