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One legal challenge to Arkansas redistricting dismissed, another claiming racial bias is ongoing

Only one of the four lawsuits challenging the legality of Arkansas's new congressional district lines remains alive after a three-judge panel dismissed one suit today. Splitting Pulaski County among three separate districts is unfair to Black voters, opponents of the new lines say.
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Panel named to hear challenge of Arkansas's congressional redistricting

Judge Lavenski Smith, chief judge of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has named the judges who will join federal District Judge James Moody in hearing the lawsuit that challenges the Arkansas redistricting of the congressional district on grounds that a gerrymander of Pulaski County into three congressional districts diluted the voting strength of Black voters who previously all voted in the 2nd Congressional District.
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A 2nd lawsuit challenges Arkansas congressional redistricting over racial gerrymander of Pulaski County

A second suit in state court challenges the racially discriminatory congressional map drawn by the Republican-controlled Arkansas legislature.

For Arkansas, it's time to stop doing the common thing

The common thing is the easy thing, the thing everyone else is doing, the status quo. It’s the uncommon person who rises above that. Both approaches were on display at the Arkansas Capitol recently.
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Congressional redistricting all but done as lawmakers OK a map that dilutes the minority vote

Arkansas lawmakers in both the House and the Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to adopt a congressional redistricting map that will pull strongly Democratic minority communities in Pulaski County into two separate stalwart Republican districts, thereby diluting their voting power. The map splits the state's capital city in two, the capital county in three, and pulls the chances of Democrats winning a seat in Arkansas's congressional delegation further out of reach.

Congressional redistricting agreement seems near, including split of Sebastian and three-way split of Pulaski

A resolution seems near on realigning the congressional districts to account for population changes.
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Redistricting: The cast of characters

John Brummett begins today a useful roundup of the characters and motivations at work in the recently concluded legislative debate over congressional redistricting.

Redistricting compromise headed to law books

The legislature is in session. Rep. Clark Hall, sponsor of the House bill, acknowledged that the final product of congressional redistricting is a compromise forced by Senate resistance to the bill passed by the House.
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Redistricting compromise unveiled UPDATE

The legislature reconvenes at 1 p.m. The big news will be at 1:30 p.m., when the House State Agencies Committee convenes and Chairman Clark Hall unveils a new congressional redistricting map.

Shaping Congress: what next?

The missing man in the debate over new congressional district lines is Gov. Mike Beebe.
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No progress on congressional redistricting

The House State Agencies Committee will meet at 1 p.m. today to consider the Senate-passed redistricting plan.

Congressional redistricting: Senate plan won't go

Late word is that polling of the House State Agencies committee indicates the Senate congressional redistricting plan/strong> won't be approved in the committee tomorrow.
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