Establishment RINO Governor Brian Kemp has officially called a special legislative session to redraw the state’s congressional, state House, and state Senate maps following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling gutting key parts of the radical Voting Rights Act.
Georgia Gov. Brian Wednesday that he is calling a special legislative session beginning June 17 to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative district maps.
Republicans are positioned to pick up TWO MORE U.S. House seats in the Peach State, flipping the current 9R-5D delegation into a crushing 11 Republican to 3 Democrat map.
But here’s the catch: Kemp is deliberately making these new maps effective for the 2028 elections, NOT the 2026 midterms.
AJC Politics reported:
The announcement of the special session comes weeks after the Supreme Court’s ruling in a Louisiana case opened the door for Republican-led states across the South to revisit congressional maps.
Kemp has already ruled out redrawing districts for the 2026 election cycle, noting candidates qualified months ago and voting is already underway. But he also said Georgia needs new political maps before 2028. Georgia Republicans have waged an intensifying behind-the-scenes fight over how aggressively to move.
One of the most likely targets of the new maps is longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, who is serving his 17th term in a southwest Georgia district that is one of the last rural Black-majority political seats in the Deep South.
Republicans have long viewed Bishop’s district as one of their best pickup opportunities outside metro Atlanta and see the Supreme Court ruling as a chance to strengthen the GOP’s current 9-5 edge in Georgia’s congressional delegation.
But Republicans could also target metro Atlanta’s boundaries in search of another seat. That would carry risks. An aggressive redraw could dilute GOP voting power elsewhere, and some party leaders are urging caution rather than overreach.
