'Severe' harm: Federal court finds Black voters' rights violated in Mississippi

Mississippi lawmakers violated the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against Black voters in their legislative redistricting plan, a federal district court ruled Tuesday.

In an opinion released by the Northern Division of the Southern District of Mississippi and highlighted by The Redistricting Network, a three-judge panel found that legislators improperly diluted Black voting power in the state House and Senate by racially gerrymandering districts. The new maps contain the same number...