A federal lawsuit alleges that among the five districts drawn to elect officials in Mississippi’s DeSoto County, all of them are discriminatory against Black Mississippians. The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the ACLU of Mississippi, and Harvard Election Law are all plaintiffs in the lawsuit and the lawsuit was filed on behalf of two voters in the county as well as Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. The lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of Mississippi on Sept. 12.
According to Mississippi Today, although 32% of residents in DeSoto County are Black, none of that county’s 25 elected officials are Black. These positions include county supervisors, justice court judges, constables, school board members, and election commissioners.
According to the Legal Defense Fund’s press release, leaders in the LDF believe that the districts as they are drawn are racially discriminatory.
As Amir Badat, the Voting Special Counsel for the LDF, said in the press release, “Black…
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