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What lies beneath the Great Lakes' waves is largely unknown, but there's a new push to learn more about thousands of shipwrecks, underwater infrastructure and the impacts of climate change on the bottom of the world's largest freshwater system.
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Six of the redistricting plans that advanced to public comment come from collaboratively drawn maps. Each of them has at least four districts that include at least a 50% Black voting age population
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The new map will create three majority-black districts, whereas before there were none
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Most of the maps cleared for public comment today Wednesday didn’t meet the Voting Rights Act guidance offered by the commission's lawyers. Tweaked versions that do could still follow
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Michigan’s redistricting commission has been redrawing the boundaries to follow the lower court order while it awaited word from the high court
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The suit alleges maps drawn by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission violate the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act
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Michigan’s redistricting commission is suing the state legislature for a little over 3-million-dollars in funding
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Lawyer said the suit will request that the justices order the commissioners to pass a new plan.
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It was the first time the panel submitted plans for a closing 45-day public comment period.
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Panel could finalize district lines as early as Dec. 30th.