On Friday, Governor Kay Ivey announced she would not call a special session in order for the legislature to redraw state Senate districts recently found to violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Deuel Ross, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s director of litigation, told the Associated Press that plaintiffs in the redistricting case are “disappointed that the governor has declined to take this opportunity to correct the illegal State Senate map.”

Federal District Judge Anna Manasco, nominated by President Trump during his first term, ruled in August that current state Senate maps around Montgomery violate Section 2 of the VRA.

“The appropriate remedy,” Manasco wrote, “is a redistricting plan that includes either an additional majority-Black Senate district in the Montgomery area, or an addit

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