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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.

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

The new map will create three majority-black districts, whereas before there were none

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

Michigan’s redistricting commission has been redrawing the boundaries to follow the lower court order while it awaited word from the high court

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

Michigan’s redistricting commission is suing the state legislature for a little over 3-million-dollars in funding

Lawyer said the suit will request that the justices order the commissioners to pass a new plan.

It was the first time the panel submitted plans for a closing 45-day public comment period.

Panel could finalize district lines as early as Dec. 30th.