Several large crowds gathered at the Georgia State Capitol to protest against Georgia’s Republican leaders from redrawing congressional and legislative lines on the state’s political maps. Georgia lawmakers were scheduled to reconvene for a special session on Wednesday to redraw boundary lines for the 2028 election cycle, but have since scrapped that plan.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp had called for the special session following a Supreme Court ruling in April that weakened discrimination protections in the Voting Rights Act, therefore ruling that lawmakers no longer have to take into account racial demographic data when drawing boundary lines.
WABE politics reporter Rahul Bali joined “Closer Look” to discuss the latest. Bali and Scott’s conversation took place before Republican leaders decided not to redraw political maps during this summer’s special session.
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