A voter casts his ballot for midterm elections at a polling station in Marietta, Georgia, U.S., November 8, 2022. Democrats need to add only five seats nationally to wrest back the House majority they lost in 2022. The Georgia ruling comes four months after the U.S. Supreme Court found that Alabama's Republican-drawn map illegally harmed Black voters. A panel of federal judges has since approved a new map that added a near-majority-Black district to the state's lone majority Black district. Despite "great strides" in providing Black voters more opportunities over the decades, Jones wrote, "the political process is not equally open to Black voters."

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Persons: Bob Strong, District Steve Jones, Jones, Joseph Ax, Alistair Bell Organizations: REUTERS, Republican, U.S, District, Republicans, . House, Supreme, Thomson Locations: Marietta , Georgia, U.S, Georgia