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Washington mdash; A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of Georgia s congressional, state Senate and state House districts were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner and ordered state lawmakers to draw an additional Black-majority congressional district.U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in a 516-page order, also said the state must draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia s 56-member stat
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stanley cup special session, as lawmakers aren t scheduled to meet again until January. If the state fails to enact remedial plans by his deadline that provide Black voters the opportunity to elect their favored candidates, Jones said the court will draw or adopt its own maps. The judge s ruling After conducting a thorough and sifting review of the evidence in this case, the Court finds that the State of Georgia violated the Voting Rights Act when it enacted its congressional and legislative maps, Jones wrote. The Court commends Georgia for the great strides that it has made to increase the political opportunities of Black voters in the 58 years since the passage of the Voting Right
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STEPHENVILLE, Texas - A jury was seated Monday in the trial of a man charged with killing the former Navy SEAL depicted in the Oscar-nominated movie American Sniper, with the judge estimating no more than two dozen people were dismissed from service because of publicity about the case.Ten women and two men will serve as jurors for Eddie Ray Routh s trial, which starts Wednesday with opening statements. Routh, a former Marine, is charged with capital murder in the deaths of 38-year-old Chris Kyle and Kyle s friend, 35-year-old Chad Littlefield. Kyle and Littlefield were trying to help Routh when prosecutor
air max s say he shot them at a Texas gun range in 2013.The Clint Eastwood-directed movie based on Kyle s memoir as a celebrated sniper who served four tours in Iraq has grossed nearly $300 million. In response to the attention paid to the Kyle case, officials called in more than four times as many potential jurors as they would for a regular trial. Yet it took just one day to seat the panel, after a screening process last week narrowed the jury pool.Simply reading Kyle s book or seeing the movie starring Bradley Coop
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