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Article: Supreme Court considers Ga. racial voting districts
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 10, 1996
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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court took up a Georgia case Monday that
could determine in real, rather than theoretical, terms when states
can use race to redraw their voting districts.
At issue are the districts that civil rights activists credit
for doubling the number of black members of Congress over the last
six years. Opponents say the districts unconstitutionally classify
people by skin color and discriminate against white voters.
The question in the Georgia case is whether the three
majority-black districts, adopted by the state legislature in 1992,
should have been cut to only one. In an earlier case, the Supreme
Court ruled that one of those districts was unconstitutional because ...