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Gainesville Republican Sen. Shelly Echols, who chairs the Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee, presents the Senate map. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Proposed new legislative maps cleared a key vote Friday as Republican lawmakers race to push through remedial plans that they say comply with a federal judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s political maps. But…

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who died on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 25, 2012 in Washington, D.C. O’Connor spoke to the necessity for civics education in maintaining an independent judiciary. The former associate justice also expressed doubt about the process in some states of electing…

George Santos is surrounded by journalists as he leaves the U.S. Capitol after his fellow members of Congress voted to expel the New York Republican from the House of Representatives on Dec. 1, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with 23 felonies in New York, including fraud and campaign finance…

Republican Sen. Shelly Echols, who chairs the Georgia Senate redistricting committee, has deflected criticism about how a GOP legislative map is proposing to add two new majority Black districts required under a federal court order. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Georgia Republican lawmakers Thursday advanced through Senate and House committees new legislative district maps after rejecting proposed…