Election workers process ballots at the Detroit Department of Elections Central Counting Board of Voting absentee ballot counting center at TCF Center on Nov. 4, 2020, in Detroit. - Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS
LANSING, Mich. — A lawsuit that alleges Michigan's new legislative district lines unfairly discriminate against Black voters and candidates will go to trial in federal court under a court order issued Tuesday.
John Bursch, one of the attorneys who brought the challenge to the state House and Senate maps, described the order from a three-judge panel in Michigan's Western District as a "tremendous victory."
