A federal judge has ruled that school board districts in Georgia鈥檚 second-largest school system appear to be unconstitutionally discriminatory and must be quickly redrawn ahead of 2024鈥檚 elections.
U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross on Thursday forbade the Cobb County school district from using a map supported by the current board鈥檚 four Republican members, finding in an preliminary injunction that the map is 鈥渟ubstantially likely to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.鈥
The Cobb County district on Friday asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to step in immediately and set the order aside, saying the district has been unfairly excluded from the litigation. The district warns that if the appeals court doesn鈥檛 act quickly, the 鈥減laintiffs鈥 scheme to use the courts to overthrow the will of Cobb County voters and replace the duly enacted redistricting map with one that advances their own political goals 鈥 without opposition 鈥 therefore will succeed exactly as plaintiffs envisioned.鈥
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