Republicans continue to move fast to strip Black voters of political power across the South

• Louisiana: At 4:30 a.m., a Louisiana Senate committee voted 4-3 to advance a congressional map that would eliminate the state’s second majority-Black district, leaving it with only one. The measure now heads to the Senate floor, where it’s expected to get a vote tomorrow.
  
  

• South Carolina: Gov. Henry McMaster (R) is expected to call a special session to redraw the congressional map after the Senate rejected a redistricting measure pushed by President Donald Trump. The move would reopen a path for Republicans to target the state’s only blue seat and lone majority-Black district.
  
  
• Mississippi: Gov. Tate Reeves (R) said Republicans are planning to redraw congressional lines and vowed to eliminate the state’s sole majority-Black district by 2027.
  
  
• Georgia: Gov. Brian Kemp (R) called a special session for June 17 to redistrict congressional and legislative maps for 2028 elections. “There is an extreme movement in this country that will stop at nothing to hold on to power, even if it means stripping representation away from millions,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) said in response.
  
  
• Tennessee: Republicans stripped Democrats from committees. The move appears to punish the entire Democratic caucus for its resistance to the gerrymander conducted last week — and, according to state Rep. Justin Pearson (D), removes every Black elected official in the Tennessee legislature from the committees they served on.
  
  
• Maryland: State Senate President Bill Ferguson (D) opposed efforts to redraw Maryland’s map last year to counter GOP gerrymanders. But now he’s apparently talking to allies about potential redistricting options.
  
  

• New Jersey: Redistricting in 2028 is on the table.

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• Outrageously, Trump’s DOJ cited its own legal memo to defend these voter roll demands.

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• Two Democratic prosecutors vowed to sue the state over a new bill that makes some elections nonpartisan in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
  
  
• Lawmakers and voting rights advocates criticized the law as attempting to dilute the voting power of Black voters, since it only applies to five specific counties with significant Black and Democratic populations, and not the whole state.
  
  
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Cleta Mitchell baselessly claims ‘creep’ Brad Raffensperger called in bomb threat against himself

• Anti-voting activist and Trump ally Cleta Mitchell, without evidence, accused Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) of calling in a bomb threat against himself.
  
  
• Raffensperger said Tuesday there was an “active threat” near a planned event for his gubernatorial campaign.
  
  
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