U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, a Georgia Democrat, said she will run for another term in Congress from the newly drawn 6th Congressional District in west metro Atlanta.

The Georgia House voted mostly along party lines, 96-68, on Monday , November 22, 2021, to send the congressional redistricting map to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature.

It is the second time that Georgia Republicans have pushed McBath out of her district. She was first elected to the U.S. House to represent Georgia's 6th District, a majority-white area, in 2018.

The General Assembly drew an additional majority-Black congressional district — Congressional District 6 — in portions of western Metro Atlanta. The majority of voters in the district are ...

That district would be carved up between two Democratic and two Republican incumbents. Lawmakers would instead create a new majority-Black 6th District in Cobb, Douglas, Fulton and Fayette counties.

Shortly after a federal judge signed off Thursday on Georgia’s new congressional and legislative maps, U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath announced she will seek her next term in the 6th District.

It challenges Georgia's 6th, 13th and 14th congressional districts. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the new maps Dec. 30.

ATLANTA — A federal court today ruled that Georgia’s state legislative district maps discriminate against Black voters and must be redrawn. The decision follows an eight-day trial in September in ...

NOW PLAYING ABOVE Federal judge rules Georgia’s new district maps can stay in place for 2022 elections Gov. Brian Kemp signed the Georgia GOP’s redistricting plan into law in December.

In a more than 500-page opinion, Judge Steve C. Jones of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia gave the state until Dec. 8 to draw new maps before he would step in to ...

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in three separate but similarly worded orders, rejected claims that the new maps don't do enough to help Black voters. Jones said he can't interfere with ...