DOJ Finds Counties In Georgia and Tennessee Were Purposely Preventing Black Residents from Electing Candidates of Their Choice. New Lawsuit To Force Them To Adopt Fair Plans
In the last week of the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Justice filed two lawsuits aimed at forcing county officials in two Southern states to adopt new election systems that don’t disenfranchise Black voters. In both cases, filed in Georgia and Tennessee, the DOJ alleges that county commission elections are structured to purposely prevent…
