Judge rules in favor of DeSoto County redistricting plan
Lee Caldwell during a DeSoto County Board of Supervisors budget meeting on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
A federal judge on Wednesday, June 24, ruled in favor of DeSoto County in a redistricting lawsuit that alleged the county’s 2022 election maps diluted Black voting power in violation of Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
U.S. District Judge Glen Davidson ruled the DeSoto branch of the NAACP did not present enough evidence to support “a strong inference that the County intentionally drew its districts to afford minority voters less opportunity because of their race.”
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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