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Parties in a lawsuit that struck down several metro-Detroit state House and Senate districts met in federal court Friday to discuss what happens next.
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It was the first vote for three new commissioners who were named to the group Wednesday and sworn in Thursday.
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The three would join the redistricting commission during a turbulent time. A federal court has ordered the group to redraw 13 metro Detroit House and Senate districts.
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A federal court ruled several Metro Detroit districts in the maps violated the Voting Rights Act because race was predominant in the way they were drawn.
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Two more members of Michigan’s redistricting commission announced their resignations Tuesday.
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The boundaries in question generally split the majority-Black city of Detroit into districts shared with its whiter suburbs. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit claimed that harmed Black voters’ ability to elect their candidates of choice.
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The suit alleges state House and Senate maps drawn by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission violate the 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.
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The group responsible for drawing Michigan’s new legislative district lines is facing an ethics question after one of its members took a new job.
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On today’s Stateside podcast, we look at a couple of postmortem election stories. We get into the spiciness of election results and challenges and we also look at how redistricting has affected election outcomes.
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The commission has requested that its $1.5 million in leftover funds from the previous year be carried over to pay for their legal needs.