Voters in U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia district have keen hopes that a recent anti-gerrymandering ruling will release them from her district, according to a new report.
Black voters in southwest Cobb County — lumped into Greene’s 14th Congressional District by state Republicans in 2021 — hope to win a representative who shares their views and values their constituency, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
“I’m totally embarrassed that she’s my representative,” Deborah Douglin told AJC. “Gerrymandering has got us stuck with somebody who absolutely, in no shape or form, represents who I am, what we think or what we want.”
Voters like Douglin are pinning their hopes on Judge Steve Jones’s October ruling that the Republican-controlled Georgia Assembly violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by disenfranchising black voters. State lawmakers have been given until Dec. 8 to rework Georgia’s 14 districts until at least five have Black voter majorities, court records show. Among the districts whose borders must be redrawn is Greene’s.
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