ATLANTA — Lawsuits challenging Georgia’s redistricting could come to an abrupt halt after the U.S. Supreme Court put on hold a lower court’s ruling that had found new congressional maps in Alabama diluted representation of Black voters.
A federal judge in the Georgia case said in court Tuesday that he is weighing whether to continue hearings in light of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision on Monday.
Justices in the Supreme Court’s conservative majority wrote that a lower court’s requirement for a new Alabama map came too close to the 2022 primary, leaving election officials little time to create new districts before its primary.
