Monday, January 29, 2024

From Courthouse News Service: Nebraska judge orders creation of four Native American-majority voting districts

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Key Terms: 

- Voting Rights Act
- violations
- federal judge
- re-drawn boundaries
- county supervisor districts.
- Winnebago Tribe
- Nebraska
- Omaha Tribe
- American Indian population
- Thurston County
- geographically compact
- majority
- districts.
- plaintiffs
- Board of Supervisor
- U.S. District Judge
- Robert F. Rossiter Jr.
- U.S. District Court for Nebraska
- American Indian majority districts.
- Native American Rights Fund.
- disenfranchisement


- Complaint: Winnebago and Omaha Tribes of Nebraska v Thurston County.

- Consent Decree: Winnebago and Omaha Tribes of Nebraska v Thurston County.