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A federal appeals court won't reconsider its decision in a redistricting case that went against two Native American tribes that challenged North Dakota's legislative redistricting map, and the dispute could be headed for the US Supreme Court. The case has drawn national interest because of a 2–1 ruling issued in May by a three-judge panel of the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals that erased a path through the federal Voting Rights Act for people in seven states to sue under a key provision of the landmark federal civil rights law. The tribes argued that the 2021 map violated the act by diluting their voting strength and ability to elect their own candidates. The panel said only the US Department of Justice can bring such lawsuits. That followed a 2023 ruling out of Arkansas in the same circuit that also said private individuals can't sue under Section 2 of the law. Those rulings conflict with decades of rulings by appellate courts in other federal circuits that have affirmed the rights of private individuals to sue under Section 2, creating a split that the Supreme Court may be asked to resolve. However, several of the high court's conservative justices recently have indicated interest in making it harder – if not impossible – to bring redistricting lawsuits under the Voting Rights Act. After the May decision, the Spirit Lake Tribe and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians asked the appeals court for a rehearing before all eleven judges. Attorneys general of nineteen states, numerous former US Justice Department attorneys, several voting rights historians, and others also asked for a rehearing. But in a ruling Thursday, the full court denied the request, which was filed by the Native American Rights Fund and other groups representing the tribes. Three judges said they would have granted it, including Circuit Chief Judge Steven Colloton, who had dissented in the previous ruling. The majority opinion in May said that for the tribes to sue under the Voting Rights Act, the law would have had to unambiguously give private persons or groups the right to do so. Lenny Powell, a staff attorney for the fund, said in a statement that the refusal to reconsider 'wrongly restricts voters disenfranchised by a gerrymandered redistricting map from challenging that map.' Powell said Monday that the tribes are now considering their legal options. Another group representing the tribes, the Campaign Legal Center, said the ruling 'is contrary to both the intent of Congress in enacting the law and to decades of Supreme Court precedent affirming voters' power to enforce the law in court.' The office of North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. The groups said they will continue to fight to ensure fair maps. The North Dakota and Arkansas rulings apply only in the states of the 8th Circuit: Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. In the wake of the Arkansas decision, Minnesota and other states have moved to shore up voting rights with state-level protections to plug the growing gaps in the federal law. The North Dakota tribes filed their lawsuit in 2022. The three-judge panel heard appeal arguments last October after Republican Secretary of State Michael Howe appealed a lower court's November 2023 decision in favor of the tribes. In that ruling, US District Judge Peter Welte ordered creation of a new district that encompassed both tribes' reservations, which are about sixty miles (ninety-seven kilometers) apart. In 2024, voters elected members from both tribes – all Democrats – to the district's Senate seat and two House seats. Republicans hold supermajority control of North Dakota's Legislature.
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US Will Try to Deport Abrego Garcia Before His Trial, Prosecutor Says
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