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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Group Hopes To Take State Redistricting Case To Supreme Court

Representatives of the Fannie Lou Hamer Foundation Political Action Committee said yesterday they hope to challenge the state's new congressional districts in the U.S. Supreme Court.


On Friday, a three-judge panel ruled against nine African-American plaintiffs backed by the Hamer Foundation and financed by the conservative Legacy Foundation. The judges upheld the maps despite saying that some of the districts outlined by the new plan resembled a "Rorschach-like eyesore."


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