{"id":2977,"date":"2026-06-17T19:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:35:43","slug":"georgia-republican-legislative-leaders-reject-governors-call-for-2028-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Republican legislative leaders reject governor\u2019s call for 2028 redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<cite><br \/>\n<span>Atlanta<\/span><span>AP<\/span><span>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<\/cite><\/div>\n<p>\n            Georgia\u2019s Republican legislative leaders on Wednesday rejected Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s call to redraw congressional and legislative districts during a special session, citing concerns about moving too quickly after a US Supreme Court decision weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2975\">Thwarted attack on UFC fight is another reason to build White House ballroom, Trump DOJ argues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            House Speaker Jon Burns sent Kemp a letter hours before a special session was set to begin Wednesday, and he announced the decision as demonstrators filled the Georgia Capitol with chants of \u201cBlack voters matter!\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The decision marked a setback for both Kemp and President Donald Trump, who has urged Republican-led states to redraw congressional districts to their advantage. Ten states already have enacted new congressional districts ahead of the November midterm elections. Georgia would have been the first to change districts for the 2028 elections.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Burns said lawmakers want to take their time after the court\u2019s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which struck down Louisiana\u2019s congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander and laid the groundwork for other Southern states to redraw their congressional districts. Burns said it was more important for lawmakers to focus on economic matters rather than \u201cpartisan games.\u201d He also cited pending litigation over existing Georgia districts and the need for the state to understand the full ramifications for how race can or cannot be used in redistricting.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Republican legislative leaders did not rule out revisiting redistricting later this year.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Minority voting rights are especially salient in Georgia, where the Capitol complex includes a statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and sits blocks from where the slain civil rights icon lived, preached and led the movement that yielded the Voting Rights Act in 1965.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2967\">On Iran, Trump is committing the cardinal sin from the \u2018Art of the Deal\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s not guaranteed that Georgia Republicans can get what they want from potential new maps.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Partisan gerrymandering involves redistributing voters \u2014 packing certain citizens into fewer districts or dividing them across more districts. Around metro Atlanta, spreading non-White, Democratic-leaning voters across more districts could make more seats seem to lean Republican. The risk, however, is that more battleground districts emerge because White metropolitan voters are trending less conservative, which could give Democratic candidates of any race or ethnicity more chances to win.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That\u2019s perhaps not a major factor in the Georgia state Senate, which already is considered gerrymandered for Republicans. But it could be a consideration when drawing state House and US House maps.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Kemp was effectively asking Republicans, especially in metro Atlanta, to redraw their own boundaries and take on new, unfamiliar territory.\n    <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2966\">How to read the US-Iran draft agreement: Big commitments from Washington, not from Tehran<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia\u2019s Republican legislative leaders on Wednesday rejected Gov. 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