South Dakota will probably appeal redistricting case
AP reports: A decision is days away but the state likely will appeal a federal ruling that legislative district boundaries violate the federal Voting Rights Act, according to [South Dakota] Attorney General Larry Long.
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier on Wednesday ruled that districts drawn after the 2000 Census illegally diluted the votes of American Indians by putting a supermajority of them into one district that encompasses the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations.
The Indian population should have been divided between that district and a neighboring district so that members of the state's largest racial minority could have a voice in more legislative races, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in the suit it brought. -- Long says appeal of voting rights ruling is likely (AP via Aberdeen News.com)